Quotes from Brent Scowcroft

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

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

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

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

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

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 all.

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.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.