Sandy Berger Quotes

#1. [Saddam] Hussein maintains an active and aggressive nuclear weapons program.

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#2. There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

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#3. The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

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#4. I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

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#5. I believe that a nuclear Iraq can change its fundamental dynamic, affecting how others behave - toward us and toward allies such as Israel - and emboldening Saddam Hussein to believe, rightly or wrongly, that he can attack his neighbors and, because of his nuclear capability, we will hesitate.

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#6. In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

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#7. Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.

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#8. He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

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#9. We know Saddam Hussein possesses chemical weapons - he has for nearly 20 years as we know only so well from his use of them against his own people and the Iranians. He has deadly stockpiles of biological weapons.

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