Gary Sick Quotes

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

Russia doesn’t like it when it is humiliated, when it is pressured.

The Iranians are not part of the “axis of Evil”. They are part of the axis of Medieval.

… this whole Near East problem is not just an Arab-Israeli dispute but a problem of the influence of the West as opposed to that of the Soviet. We want no wars, but we do not want a Sovietized world.

We can deal with Iran if it is a nation but not if it is a cause.

Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in.

The Turks ... the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. What were they doing?

I've thought for some time that the answer to a lot of problems in the Middle East, including Iran, include an active role with Russia. And I think, in some ways, we've taken show votes in the U.N. that are guaranteed to failure before we take them.

Another mess I inherited, and we have imposed new sanctions on the nation of Iran who has totally taken advantage of our previous administration, and they're the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and we're not going to stop until that problem is properly solved, and it's not properly solved now.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

You know in the West they support realistic forces.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating.

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

Is Turkey one of the Ayrab countries with which you don't get on very well?

The United Nations Security Council is there to protect the interest of the Americans and the British.

Great powers engage.

America simply prefers to deal with dictators.

Cooperation requires a certain degree of trust between states. The threshold of trust required for cooperation depends on a set of variables including a state's relative power and costs of conflict…. conflict between trustworthy states is possible, when we see conflict it is a sign that one or both of the states are likely to be untrustworthy.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

War is but an instrument of international policy.