"Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis."
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"The U.S. ultimately decides what the national security threat is. They put Russia one, Iran two, China three - the terrorists are down the list. But it's amazing to me that we can still consider Russia a threat. On the contrary, they've been very helpful in the Middle East, trying to calm the situation and respect the rights of sovereign countries to exist. It's the U.S. that hasn't - whether in Serbia, the old Yugoslavia, in Africa, and now, Iraq."
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"When you look at the global situation, if America learned to be one of the many countries in the world and to find its way to cooperate with people and bring a global peace that could bring great prosperity to this globe, there is still a chance of that, and that's a big lesson from history. We are not paying attention to that."
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"I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms of George Bush, and I was wondering, "Is he an exception to the rule, or he is a continuation? What is driving all these wars? What is driving this attitude of aggressiveness and militarism?" I got my answer - and it was a shocking answer. I found is this whole strain of history, this whole school has been denied by the media. It is a bizarre blindness, because we are such an intelligent country. It's bizarre that we can't get our own history straight."
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"Live, love, knowing that we're all free Now that we are blessed in our country And realise how lucky we are"
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"The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country."
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"When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers."
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"Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it."
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"I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries."
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"I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country."
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"A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible."
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"It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?"
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"All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong."
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"The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind."
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"Well, India is a country of nonsense"
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"My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica."
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"I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India."
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"My love of nationalism is that my country may become free, and if need be, the whole of the country die, so that the human race may live."
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"Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom."
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"I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends."
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