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• MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks,…
• A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and…
• Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless…
• I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the…
• Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
• In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be…
• There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people,…
• I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just…
• Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people…
• United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
• The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
• The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of…

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