"That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.“

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"One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war."

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"I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive."

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"We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States."

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"I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away."

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"Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center."

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