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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.

Brent Scowcroft

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
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
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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Boys Problem West
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
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Allies Country Enemy People
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
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
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
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 all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Countries Known Merchants People
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
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
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity

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