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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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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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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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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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