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.
BRENT SCOWCROFTRussia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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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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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
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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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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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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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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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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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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