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You don’t get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there’s a good reason for it. They work better.

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as ‘free’ or ‘mostly free’ increased by about 50%.

Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people.

My experience is that if the military didn’t want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the ‘bomb Moscow’ scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn’t do it.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

It was an attempt to stick the Congress’s finger in King Hussein’s eye.

I don’t know how you define ‘neoconservatism,’ but I think it’s associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It’s the Reagan way.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren’t successful. I just talk to people.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that’s working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he’d do it. In government, you don’t have to worry about that.

You’ve got to dream a little bit if you’re going to get somewhere.

The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.

If they are too big to fail, make them smaller.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.