Paul Danahar Quotes

The Middle East is not part of the world that plays by Las Vegas rules: What happens in the Middle East is not going to stay in the Middle East.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

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.

The only things that matter in the world are Japan and China, Russia and Europe. Latin America doesn’t matter…. And … there’s nothing you can do about the Middle East.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

Great powers engage.

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

Everything in the Middle East is connected to everything else

So much of our foreign policy is based on other people’s weakness.

What starts in the Middle East never stays in the Middle East..

A new multipolar world has brought more uncertainty into international affairs.

The interference of Iran affects us all.

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

Iran is the base of an axis of evil which is a problem for all the world.

In addition to deep divisions on issues such as trade, climate change, Middle East peace and nuclear weapons, Trump's attacks on leaders such as Trudeau and Merkel and disrespect for NATO and other institutions are prompting a reassessment by allied governments and publics.

On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.