Richard Lugar
Richard Lugar
Richard Green "Dick" Lugaris an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as a United States senator, representing Indiana from 1977 to 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 April 1932
CityIndianapolis, IN
CountryUnited States of America
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It's unfortunate. It illustrates a dysfunctional state where the left and right hand don't know what either is doing and people are enforcing their whims of the day without deference to the world.
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Even if withdrawal timelines are deemed unwise because they might provide a strategic advantage to the insurgency, the American people need to more fully understand the basis upon which our troops are likely to come home.
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This is a fundamental change and is a change probably in the tactics of our military, so that our people will be more mobile, more available at other places all over the earth.
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We should recognize that most Americans are focused on an exit strategy in Iraq. Even if withdrawal timelines are deemed unwise because they might provide a strategic advantage to the insurgency, the American people need to more fully understand the basis upon which our troops are likely to come home.
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Huge stockpiles of weapons left over from previous times in Ukraine are dangerous for the people of this country as well as for other countries,
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Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
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would include the possibility that Secretary Bolton might be asked to come back for additional testimony.
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We really have to be in negotiations; we have to be talking, ... I think the idea that we can handle one thing at a time is clearly not the case.
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Our central question today is what more can be done,
I think we need much more concentrated thinking.
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The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.
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It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.
Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had.
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Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food.