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A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

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One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

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I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

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Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

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The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

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If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

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I'm a big advocate of drones.

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If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'

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I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

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I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: September 25th, 1943

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