59 Quotes by Brent Scowcroft

I can't think of a single case where a bombing campaign alone has made a foreign leader change his mind,

I believe that everyone in the administration, and throughout the Arab world, thought he could not survive the defeat that he did, ... We underestimated his skill and ruthlessness.

An attack on Iraq at this time would seriously jeopardize, if not destroy, the global counterterrorist campaign we have undertaken,

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 differently.

I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

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.

Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

Saddam’s ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.

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.