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"Each country in the Middle East will take a different path of reform. And every nation that starts on that journey can know that America will walk at its side."
GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, on recent steps toward democracy in Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in a speech at the U.S. National Defense University

"If the Administration wants to be dismissive of the U.N. and try to not be taken seriously at the U.N., then he's the right guy."
GARY ACKERMAN, U.S. Representative, on the nomination of Under Secretary of State John Bolton as...

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