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In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue. ↗

— Robert Kagan

#america #because #enjoys #enter #europe

I will always be a partner with the president of the United States. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#i #partner #president #states #united

I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city. ↗

— Bob Filner

#board #children #city #diego #elementary

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#attack #biggest #explosion #frustration #given

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#cliche #days #different #empire #global

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#any #countries #deployments #given #states

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghanistan #america #congressman #democratically #divide

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghan people #majority #partnership #people #states

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#country #prove #sovereign #states #treating

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#becoming #define #discuss #herself #issue