Daniel Fried Quotes

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

Great powers engage.

We must settle our accounts with great and superpowers, and show them that we can take on the whole world ideology, despite all the painful problems that face us.

We cannot admit rivals to the East, or even the central parts of Africa.

Existing great powers are always nervous when there is a new emerging power

All [countries] cannot be happy at once … because the glory of one state depends upon the ruin of another

The moment it became in the interests of one or the other of the Great Powers to alter the status quo, none of these treaty structures ever stood in the way of such alteration.

I believe some of the tensions the U.S. has had with Russia and that the Europeans have had with Russia... China is taking advantage of some of those dealings.

Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

[Vladimir] Putin took a look at them [Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] and said, I can push these guys around the world. These are children compared to me. Donald Trump is not a child.

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

He [Vladimir Putin] will not be able to push Donald Trump around the world. Believe me.

Vladimir Putin likes Donald Trump because he supports this view of the world, that the big guys can carve it up, sit and talk about the world, carve up the countries, shape borders. For Putin, treaties, alliances, Nato, the EU are stumbling blocks.

we are dealing with a return to what might be a far more normal relationship between the West and Russia. Russia is what it is that we see. It's not dressed up in its birthday costume. It is what it is. It regards its national interests as important enough to fight for. And the difference on the whole Ukraine situation is that the Russians are prepared to fight for their position on Ukraine, and the West is not.

Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.

The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.

I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

Our enemies will respond only to American strength.

The world [is] now seeing might is right.

There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.

The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make much progress unless there's a strong solidarity movement within the superpower that will restrain its actions. With more support within the United States, I think the Haitian efforts could have succeeded.

Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

I don't believe that China, in my lifetime or maybe my children's lifetime, be equal to the United States militarily speaking, but they are very careful to avoid any engagement in war, they are basically a peaceful country, which gives them another advantage over the United States when we are much more inclined to go to war for various reasons.