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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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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
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 art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
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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Country Democracy People States
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
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
It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Countries Known Merchants People
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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Chaos Country Feels People
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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Country Different People Vietnam
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
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
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
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
After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
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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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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