A Quote by Sandy Berger
In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.
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I like being prepared. When things are going on and I have to learn my lines at the last minute, I'm never quite secure enough to allow it to be spontaneous. So the more prepared I am, the more I'm able to kind of let it go . . .
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