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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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

  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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• 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

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Daniel Fried

  Years, Administration, Enough

  Source: www.msnbc.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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• 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.

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  Strong, Miracle, Want

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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.

  Daniel Fried

  Couple, People, Done

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Daniel Fried

  Blow, United States, States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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.

  Daniel Fried

  Japan, Europe, Democracy

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

  Daniel Fried

  Order, Want, Western

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

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  Hate, Love Hate, Adversaries

  Source: www.msnbc.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.

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  Senior, Team, Want Something

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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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• 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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