As I said to you earlier in George Washington's farewell address, which is a beautiful summation of the kind of foreign policy I like, he used this wonderful line, why quit our own to stand on foreign ground? We are not abandoning the world by stopping to try trying to control it militarily. On the contrary, we're encouraging the rest of the world. Peace is not an un American point of view. (1:14:47–1:14:54)
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Asserts that reducing military control does not equate to abandoning global responsibilities.
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