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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

Brent Scowcroft

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
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
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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Believe Thinking World
Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn’t share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they’ve gone back and forth.
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Enlightenment Gone Share
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
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
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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Russia Soul Trying
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
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
After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
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
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
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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Country Different People Vietnam
America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can’t do what used to be done with that kind of strength.
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Country People Strength Stronger

It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

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