Daniel Fried Quotes

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• Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

  Daniel Fried

  Drunk, Alcohol, Firsts

  "Old Divides Plague Bosnia" by Christine Spolar, articles.chicagotribune.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup.

  Daniel Fried

  Makeup, Partisanship

  Source: www.politico.com

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• ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the thinking of the [Donald Trump] administration. That's a perfectly reasonable approach. Well, if that's the case, then you surely want to have a united West to deal with both, and you want to have Russia alongside, but maybe not this Russia while it's busy trying to undermine your chief asset, which is a united West.

  Daniel Fried

  Thinking, Russia, Isis

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Diplomacy is not merely talking somebody into something; it's talking to somebody from a position of strength. You put your power on the table to open up the conversation; that's diplomacy.

  Daniel Fried

  Talking, Tables, Conversation

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We intend to leave it without further discussion. We respect this request by the government of Uzbekistan

  Daniel Fried

  Government, Uzbekistan, Request

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• The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

  Daniel Fried

  Iran, Nuclear, World

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• At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.

  Daniel Fried

  Country, Flag Burning, Flags

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• I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.

  Daniel Fried

  Thinking, Government, President

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of which there are plenty. Nothing is easy. It's always rough.

  Daniel Fried

  Important, Pitfalls, Way

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Russia comes from a place of deep resentment against the West, in general, and the United States in particular. They are rapacious, because they want back as much of their empire as they can grab. And we need to resist that. At the same time, we should be able to look for areas of common interest.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, United States, Needs

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There is nothing wrong when the Trump administration says it wants to find areas of common ground to work with Russia - perfectly reasonable. The question is, are you willing to pay the Russians in advance for the privilege of working with them in areas that are supposed to be of common interest, and that - I don't see the American interest in doing so.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, Want, Pay

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Ronald Reagan reached out to Gorbachev. At the same time, we were pushing back against the Soviets all over the world. He was able to do two things at once, and it worked out very well for us.

  Daniel Fried

  Two, Pushing Back, World

  Source: www.politico.com

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• George W. Bush tried working with the Russians after 9/11; Obama had the reset. Both presidents achieved less than they wanted, but they both achieved something. Those policies made sense, and it's to the credit of both Presidents Bush and Obama that even as they reached out to Russia, they did not sacrifice core American interests, or core American values. We didn't give the Russians on the altar of better relations other countries. We were able to do two things at once.

  Daniel Fried

  Country, Sacrifice, Russia

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I am not against working with Russia in areas of common interests at the same time. We're smart enough, or we should be smart enough to have a dual track policy. You know, walk and chew gum at the same time.

  Daniel Fried

  Smart, Russia, Track

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The Russians are using the tools at their disposal to weaken Western solidarity, to create doubt, to support nationalist parties, just as the old Soviets supported leftist parties. We need a united Western response to this multi-pronged threat.

  Daniel Fried

  Party, Support, Doubt

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Russia despises the West. And is doing what it can to weaken the West.

  Daniel Fried

  Russia, West, Despise

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Sanctions are a strong and agreed element of the West's response to Russia's aggression. It is puzzling to me that there is so much skepticism about the sanctions. I don't understand it.

  Daniel Fried

  Strong, Russia, Elements

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I think the West is in a low point we haven`t seen since the 1930s.

  Daniel Fried

  Thinking, West, Lows

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don`t mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.

  Daniel Fried

  Mean, Feel Better, Unions

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• They [Russians] are the adversary, they - we`re the adversary they love to hate.

  Daniel Fried

  Hate, Love Hate, Adversaries

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Diminish us across the board. They [Russians] do not wish us well.

  Daniel Fried

  Wish, Boards, Wells

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• America is not a white man's republic.

  Daniel Fried

  Men, White Man, America

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• We have a deep sense of American equality and opportunity, and that informs the way in which we brought our American power to the world, because we thought that other nations were entitled to that same opportunity in a rules-based system.

  Daniel Fried

  Opportunity, World, Way

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Taken, Men

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's said that Putin can't stand Hillary Clinton. I don't know that for a fact, but it certainly looks that way, but I think her approach to Russia stands up pretty well.

  Daniel Fried

  Thinking, Russia, Facts

  Source: www.politico.com

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