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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

Brent Scowcroft

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
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
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
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
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
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Allies Progress Together Working
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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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 all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
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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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
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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