Everybody is within reach of a television set. And so they're all politicized, and they're all stimulated, and then they have these desires, pleasures, hates, resentments, and so on, and they're reacting instantaneously.
Brent ScowcroftWho is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It's the United States.
Brent ScowcroftBut there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Brent ScowcroftI believe the Chinese are gradually realizing that they're dependent on the system that, as they run out of energy, for example, they have to reach out to foreign sources for energy, for raw materials. They have to reach out to the world for markets. They have to export. They have to maintain full employment. They've got a terrible population problem. So they need a stable world, in a way.
Brent Scowcroft