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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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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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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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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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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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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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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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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn’t know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
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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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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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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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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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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