Brent Scowcroft

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that,…

— Brent Scowcroft

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

Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or…

— Brent Scowcroft

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

— Brent Scowcroft

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

— Brent Scowcroft

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

— Brent Scowcroft

Everybody is within reach of a television set. And so they're all politicized, and they're all stimulated, and then they have these…

— Brent Scowcroft

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.

— Brent Scowcroft

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.

— Brent Scowcroft

After the '30s, we said, "no more Munichs." And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, "No more…

— Brent Scowcroft

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

— Brent Scowcroft

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

— Brent Scowcroft

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

— Brent Scowcroft

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a…

— Brent Scowcroft

Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping…

— Brent Scowcroft

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

— Brent Scowcroft

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

— Brent Scowcroft

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

— Brent Scowcroft

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that…

— Brent Scowcroft

For most of mankind, the average person knew what was happening in his own village and the next one, and nothing beyond…

— Brent Scowcroft

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that…

— Brent Scowcroft

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

— Brent Scowcroft

If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are…

— Brent Scowcroft

I think that America is a part of the world, that we want to cooperate with the world. We are not the…

— Brent Scowcroft

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

— Brent Scowcroft