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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• That was pretty smooth, because you don`t want something to go wrong when you have a whole senior level of actings. That`s not a position you want to be in. It`s OK to replace your team, but usually you want them to be in place until the new people are confirmed.

  Daniel Fried

  Senior, Team, Want Something

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In my view, [Vladimir] Putin despises the West in general and the United States in particular, both for who we are, our liberal values, and for what we`ve done, which is to take down the Soviet Empire.

  Daniel Fried

  Views, West, United States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We did really well for a generation after 1989 and the fall of communism. Our liberal values expanded in the world, our prosperity expanded.

  Daniel Fried

  Fall, Generations, World

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.

  Daniel Fried

  Taken, Russia, Achievement

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It was my honor to have done what I could do to help. I learned to never underestimate the possibility of change, that values have power and that time and patience can pay off, especially if you`re serious about your objectives.

  Daniel Fried

  Possibility Of Change, Honor, Serious

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We are a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes us Americans. When we sign onto that belief, we sign onto the core American identity, and that's very deep in us.

  Daniel Fried

  Men, Identity, Liberty

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Lincoln is quoted more often than he's understood, and he understood that the founding principle of our nation is, in fact, the Declaration of Independence.

  Daniel Fried

  Independence, Principles, Facts

  Source: www.politico.com

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• America's grand strategy did not come from nowhere. It followed from our deeper conception of ourselves, and our American identity. Who are we, Americans? What is our nation? We are not an ethnostate with identity rooted in shared blood. The option of a white man's republic ended at Appomattox.

  Daniel Fried

  Men, White, America

  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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• I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which is an American tradition and a pretty good one, and I think she was willing to do that.

  Daniel Fried

  Appreciation, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I'm one of the many people who has said that the Hillary Clinton we know in private was effective, strong, courageous, and funny. And the campaigner we saw was less so, more scripted. Many people have made that observation, and it was my observation, too, but I'm grateful for what she did.

  Daniel Fried

  Strong, Grateful, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There are lots of secretaries who send off special envoys and yes, say, "Do a great job," and that's fine until it costs you something. And then they cut you off.

  Daniel Fried

  Jobs, Cutting, Special

  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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• I think, Russia is pushing against the West in general, not just the United States but the institutions of the West, the key governments in the West using a variety of tools, as well as military assault on Ukraine.

  Daniel Fried

  Military, Thinking, Keys

  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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• 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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• Both the Bush people and [Barack] Obama people had no problem working with the holdovers. They weren`t out to get them.

  Daniel Fried

  People, Problem, Barack

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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