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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

Brent Scowcroft

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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Age Dangerous Elements Islamic
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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Country People United States World
Saddam’s ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Country Democracy Election People
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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Boys Problem West
America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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Better Country World People
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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Enlightenment Gone Share
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.
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Explain Forthcoming Region Something
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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Experience Soil Violence Years
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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
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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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Broke Country People Thinking Weak
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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