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National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

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But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules.

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Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

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Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

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Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.

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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

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In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.

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In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

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No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: September 16th, 1941

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