Latest Daniel Fried Quotes from Interviews

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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

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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

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• [Donald Trump administration] didn`t ask me to stay and 40 years seemed like enough.

  Daniel Fried

  Years, Administration, Enough

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• The usual practice is that the people in their jobs keep their jobs until their successors are named. Now, that`s the way the [George] Bush administration treated the [Bill] Clinton people. And that`s the way the [Barack] Obama administration treated the [George W.] Bush people.

  Daniel Fried

  Jobs, Practice, People

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• We`re a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the very notion of liberal democracy is being questioned, and that is disturbing.

  Daniel Fried

  Democracy, Vietnam, Littles

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• The West in its modern form since 1945 is a miracle, and that`s in our American interests. It`s its good that the West is strong and at peace, and we should want more of that, not less.

  Daniel Fried

  Strong, Miracle, Want

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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

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• The European Union, ok, right, it has a bureaucracy, right. It`s sometimes difficult to deal with but so what? You hire a couple of people like me to work the European Union, and it can be done. It`s pretty good.

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  Couple, People, Done

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• Two World Wars are sufficient and we are the ones who supported this notion of a united Europe, so there would never be another set of civil wars in Europe again, ever. That was a fabulous success. It was so fabulous that people now take it for granted.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Two Worlds, Europe

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• Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Fighting, Thinking

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• The United States comes in 1945 and we basically blow the whistle.

  Daniel Fried

  Blow, United States, States

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• [Russians would like to] undermine the West and its institutions, create doubts about NATO, create doubts about the European Union, support nationalists on the right just as the Soviet communists supported communists on the left. Weaken the West in general and create an atmosphere in which we`re uncertain about ourselves.

  Daniel Fried

  Support, Atmosphere, Doubt

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• What [Russians] want to do is undermine the Western liberal order.

  Daniel Fried

  Order, Want, Western

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• The sense the great democracies of the world - Europe, the United States, Japan, others - are going to set the agenda for the world. [Russians] want to bring that down.

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  Japan, Europe, Democracy

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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

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

  Daniel Fried

  Wish, Boards, Wells

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

  Daniel Fried

  Hate, Love Hate, Adversaries

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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.

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  Military, Thinking, Keys

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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

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• We Americans are focused on Russia`s attacks with our electoral system and we`re consumed with that. But Russia is pushing against the West generally.

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  Russia, West, Pushing

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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.

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  Fall, Generations, World

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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.

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  Taken, Russia, Achievement

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• For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that Poland`s solidarity movement could win, that the Iron Curtain would come down, that the Baltic states could be free, that the second of the 20th century`s great evils, communism, could be vanquished without war, but it happened and the West`s great institutions, NATO and the E.U., grew to embrace 100 million liberated Europeans.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Winning, Two

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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.

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  Possibility Of Change, Honor, Serious

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• My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire and the putting in order of what came after - the building of a Europe whole, free, and at peace. It`s hard to recall today how improbable victory in the Cold War appeared.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Fall, Careers

  Source: www.msnbc.com