59 Quotes by Brent Scowcroft

After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

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

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn’t look very smart.

Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn’t know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.