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"We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us."
"When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon."
"I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to."
"I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book."
"I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic."
