Given the relatively backwards condition of America's infrastructure after the Second World War, it doubtless could have been argued that this country's development needs should take precedence over helping friends and former foes.

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While information technologies are prevalent across Corporate America, they tend to be backwards looking.

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The unilateral arms controllers have the logic of proliferation exactly backwards when they suggest that it is America's possession of nuclear weapons technology that drives proliferation.

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We're going to make sure that young people who are brought to this country when they were very young and have grown up as Americans, that they have an opportunity to contribute here in America, the country that they love. (Applause.) We're not going backwards.

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