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We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.

We won't always have the strongest military.

We seek no wider war.