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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.

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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
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
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
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
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
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
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
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
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
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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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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