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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

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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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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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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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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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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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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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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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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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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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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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they’re nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it’s dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.
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