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"I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair."

Love, Americans, Europe

"I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans."

War, Americans, Being, World

"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."

Money, Building, Destruction, Weapons

"While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile."

Government, Democracy

"No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight."

Behavior, Will

"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future."

Power, America, Force, Future, Nation

"Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed."

Goal, Destruction, Iraq, Succeed

"My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam."

Mind, Vietnam

"Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences."

Diplomacy, Rights, Humanrights, Principles

"To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French."

Genius, Europe

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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

Genius,

"Genius is sorrow's child."

John Adams, American President

Genius, Sorrow

"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Genius, Books, Mankind, Posterity

"The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later."

Louis Aragon, French Poet

Genius, Ideas, Years

"A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull."

Louis Auchincloss, American Novelist

Genius, Danger, Literary, Will

"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Genius, Nation, Spirit, Wit

"Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it."

J. G. Ballard, British Author

Genius, Fool

"The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

Genius, Action, Man, Mind

"Genius is childhood recalled at will."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Genius, Childhood, Will

"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."

Pierre Beaumarchais, French Inventor

Genius, Trouble