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“My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.”

States America Goal United United States Policy Iraq Debate Lacking Facilitate Baghdad

Author:Scott Ritter

“It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace of Westminster in 1982, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy and the emergence of democracy promotion as a central goal of United States foreign policy.”

States Goal United United States Democracy Policy Creation Republican Speech London Foreign Policy American Politics Promotion Palaces Emergence Endowment Westminster

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.”

World May Made States Goal Differences United United States Conditions Safe Tough France Japan Threatening

Book:The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Source: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

“We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces.”

People Ifs States America Faces Force Goal United United States Our Lives Blood Achieve Activism Liberation Dedicated United States Of America

Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.”

Should Trying Wells Looks Ends States Light Goal United United States Acceptance Shadow Areas Negative Aspect Backgrounds Negativity Suppressing Disowning

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“Peace is our goal, but peace from strength, an enduring peace that will bring regional cooperation. What we have emphasized and agreed is that we are strategic partners. We are bound by common interests and will act together to ensure both the safety of United States and the safety of Afghanistan. That is the important consideration. Numbers are a means; they are not an end in themselves.”

“A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States of Europe overrides these goals, the new Europe will be one of subsidy and protection”

Ifs States Force Nations Goal United Liberty United States Creating Europe Trade Democratic Protection Enterprise Subsidies

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations