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What really troubles me is that democracy is getting a bad name because it is identified with imposition and occupation. I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

— Madeleine Albright

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What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?

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