Brent Scowcroft Quotes

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• We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Believe, Nwo, Creating

  "Bush's Talk of 'New World Order': Foreign Policy Tool or Mere Slogan?". The Washington Post, (p. A31), May 26, 1991.

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• Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Working Together, Progress, Allies

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• Information technology has politicized the world's population.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Technology, Population, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Enemy, China, Behave

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Order, Historical, Events

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• The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Art, Opportunity, Diplomacy

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Thinking, Lessons, Dangerous

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.

  Brent Scowcroft

  America, People, Want

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Democracy, Election

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Mistake, Ideas, Execution

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• Everybody is within reach of a television set. And so they're all politicized, and they're all stimulated, and then they have these desires, pleasures, hates, resentments, and so on, and they're reacting instantaneously.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Hate, Desire, Television

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• For most of mankind, the average person knew what was happening in his own village and the next one, and nothing beyond that, and he didn't care, so that leaders were able to guide their countries almost irrespective of what people really thought because they weren't involved in it. Now, everybody knows what's happening instantaneously.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Country, Average, People

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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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.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Iraq, Different, Vietnam

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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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.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Enlightenment, Gone, Share

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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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.

  Brent Scowcroft

  America, Democracy, States

  "The more intelligence I read, the more conservative I become" by George Brandis, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I believe the Chinese are gradually realizing that they're dependent on the system that, as they run out of energy, for example, they have to reach out to foreign sources for energy, for raw materials. They have to reach out to the world for markets. They have to export. They have to maintain full employment. They've got a terrible population problem. So they need a stable world, in a way.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Running, Believe, Population Problem

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I think that America is a part of the world, that we want to cooperate with the world. We are not the dominant power in the world, that everyone falls in behind us. But we want to reach out and cooperate.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Fall, Thinking, America

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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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.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Iraq, Democracy, Election

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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.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Years, Soil, Violence

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

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  Known, Merchants

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Osama Bin Laden, Regimes, Deals

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• Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Middle East, World, Asia

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• 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.

  Brent Scowcroft

  America, Stronger, Done

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• The Russians are not going to do what we want them to do because we want them to do it.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Want

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Organization, Ties, Sept 11

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