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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.

Brent Scowcroft

Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
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
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
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
After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
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
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
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Allies Country Enemy People
America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can’t do what used to be done with that kind of strength.
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Country People Strength Stronger
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
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 don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Country Looks People System Thinking
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Allies Progress Together Working
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

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