"After World War II, American leaders were, in Dean Acheson's words, 'present at the creation' of a global order. Now at the end of the cold war, we desperately need that same vision, that leadership, that creativity to be applied to the governance of the global marketplace."

-- John J. Sweeney

#War Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Order Quotes

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
“Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.”
“The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.”
“What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.”
“The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.”
“It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.”
“Don't ever knock a bottle out of my hand.”
“It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period of time? that the individual have a meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention and challenge whether they are being wrongfully detained.”

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