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

Brent Scowcroft

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
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
I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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Country Memories People United States
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
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Fighting Followed Numbers Terrorism
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
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
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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Country People Period Strategy War
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
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
Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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Russia Soul Trying
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
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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