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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don’t agree with that, because I don’t think we’re capable of doing that.
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Believe Thinking World
After the ’30s, we said, “no more Munichs.” And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, “No more Vietnams.” Now if we say, “No more Iraqs,” the next one won’t be an Iraq. It will be something different. You can’t learn lessons.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.
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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can’t do what used to be done with that kind of strength.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they’re the West’s whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.
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But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.
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Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn’t share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they’ve gone back and forth.
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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
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