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"Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate."

"I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up."

"I think if I wasn't in very high level, I never will be in the team. Cause I was high, in very high level."

"I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan."

"I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause."

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

"Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?"
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"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."

"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."

"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."

"We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone."

"But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity."

"But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough."

"You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation."

"Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here."

"I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes."

"So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence."
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