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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.

Brent Scowcroft

I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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Boys Problem West
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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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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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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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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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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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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