JESSICA MATHEWS

(Jessica Tuchman Mathews)


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You can’t go making new nuclear weapons and talk to the rest of the world about giving them up.
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You can’t outsource diplomacy. You can’t do it unless you do it.
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She was decrying a practice where the Untied States would not negotiate or meet directly with Iran and were communicating diplomatically through other nations diplomats.

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National security must include international economics as it became clear that the U. S. economy was powerfully affective by economic policies in dozens of other countries.
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As much as a given condition can be bad at a moment in time, it could be a lot worse.
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An American's refrigerant can cause a New Zealander's skin cancer.
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Bargaining chips that you never get to spend are not worth anything
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The reason that our policy and negotiations with North Korea have failed so badly that is sane people negotiating with crazy people.
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By the standards of the rest of the world the North Korean policies and actions were at the time irrational and inconsistent and explained in a manner which defied any norms that any other nation’s leaders could understand and explain.

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Jessica Mathews
  • Born: July 4, 1946
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Peace Activist
Biography

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is an American peace activist. She was President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign policy think tank in Washington, D.C., from 1997 to 2015. She has also held jobs in the Executive and Legislative branches of government, management and research in nonprofits, and journalism.