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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

Brent Scowcroft

After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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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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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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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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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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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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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

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