 Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. |
| Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. |
| Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. |
| Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall. |
| War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. |
| According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. |
| We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. |
| We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. |
| In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option. |
| We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised. |
| To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone. |
| But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. |
| We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists. |
| It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. |
| American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. |
| We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. |
| I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety? |
| We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree. |
| We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. |
| Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom. |
