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“The United Nations was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.”

“Development is the most important weapon for peace.”

“Only a global partnership that is truly comprehensive can sustain the hope for a better future for all humankind.”

“It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough.”

“Peace-keeping is not a job for soldiers, but soldiers are the only ones who can do it.”

“Allowing events to drive policy is the worst kind of foreign policy.”

“The time of absolute and exclusive sovereignty... has passed; its theory was never matched by reality.”

“Democracy is not an import that can be transplanted to a land. It is a product that must be grown on a country's soil.”

“More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together.”

“Human rights are the soul of our foreign policy, because they are the soul of our sense of nationhood.”

“The Cold War's end has been a blessing for some, a curse for others. The world is in a state of turmoil.”

“We are in a time of global transition. There is no doubt about that.”