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The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed.

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The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

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I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.

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Just because we can't sell shares in nature doesn't mean it has no value.

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Remember, in China when you are one in a million, there are 1,300 other people just like you.

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Now we've entered Globalization 3.0, and it is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny.

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In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

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Am I a bad person if I hope that when Norquist slips in that bathtub and has to call 911, no one answers?

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The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.

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No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

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We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

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Israel should really reflect on what's going on in Egypt. It does not want to be the Hosni Mubarak of the peace process.

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What we're gonna find out, Bob, in the next six to nine months is whether we have liberated a country or uncorked a civil war.

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I think we are in the end game. The next six to nine months are going to tell whether we can produce a decent outcome in Iraq.

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My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

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The British vote by a narrow majority to leave the European Union is not the end of the world — but it does show us how we can get there.

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The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. […] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

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That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers.

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Hamas devoted all its resources to digging tunnels to attack Israelis from Gaza rather than turning Gaza into Singapore, making a laughingstock of Israeli peace advocates.

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Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

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Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

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The next six months in Iraq — which will determine the prospects for democracy-building there — are the most important six months in U.S. foreign policy in a long, long time.

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The only thing I am certain of is that in the wake of this election, Iraq will be what Iraqis make of it — and the next six months will tell us a lot. I remain guardedly hopeful.

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I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

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American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

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Improv time is over. This is crunch time. Iraq will be won or lost in the next few months. But it won't be won with high rhetoric. It will be won on the ground in a war over the last mile.

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Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.

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Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands.… I believe that as soon as Ahmed has a seat in the bus, he will limit his demands.

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