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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.

Brent Scowcroft

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
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
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
It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Countries Known Merchants People
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
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
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
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 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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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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Allies Progress Together Working
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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Fighting Followed Numbers Terrorism
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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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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Country Hussein Internal People Situation
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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