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Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

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Me You American Foreign Policy

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

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Future Past Real Historical

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

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City World Value Monuments

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

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World Political Foreign Policy Policy

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

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America Will American Disappear

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

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Power World American Some

The world needs a strong America.

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World Strong America Needs

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

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Success Determination Past Patriotism

The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.

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America Will Suffer Those

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

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Peace Trust Conflict Serving

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Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

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Peace Goals People Conflict

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

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Music Sports Football Architecture

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

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Growth Opportunity American Dream

In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.

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Truth Simple Single American

The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the United States' place in providing global public goods that underpin security and prosperity. The United States functions as the world's de facto government.

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World Government Place Country

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

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World Important Oil Less

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

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Power World Way Political

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

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Politics World Control Economics

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

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Future Past Words Matter

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

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Inequality Human Existence Natural

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

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Sports People World Understand

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

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Football People Loved Violence

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

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Failure You Great Responsibility

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.

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Sports Win Lose Cheating

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

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Work War Intelligence Police

First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.

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World Government Foreign Policy Right

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