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29 quotes by Brent Scowcroft

Brent Scowcroft KBE (/ˈskoʊkrɒft/; born March 19, 1925) is a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General. He was the United States National Security Advisor under U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He served as Chairman of the President's Foreign...
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An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

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Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at... →

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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... →

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

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So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

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We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.

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But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period... →

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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... →

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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... →

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First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption... →

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You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little... →

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

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