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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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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.
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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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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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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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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
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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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If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they’re nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it’s dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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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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