Russia and [Vladimir] Putin`s antipathy toward Hillary Clinton from her time as secretary of state, Russia`s antipathy and loathing and fear of the U….

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS..

I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text..

Fascism is not just a word. It`s not just a way to insult someone with whom you disagree. It is a specific thing. It is a specific form of far right ….

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of….

These are career non-partisan apolitical staffers with a combined 150 years of experience at the State Department gone, just like that right off the ….

Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird..

[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration..

People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts..

We are starting to see what may be signs of continuing [Russian] influence in our country. Not just during the campaign but during the [Donald Trump]….

There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-rai….

There's nothing about the way my life unfolded that should be seen as at all prescriptive for what anybody else wants to do..

I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd..

The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up..

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too..

Chris Christie who proposes accepting Syrian refugee orphans under the age of 5 because they may not be vetted well enough. You can`t trust them. The….

Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and say religion is a priva….

Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president ….

I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any sort of distant horizon. I have sort of leapt ….

[Dan Fried ]is a pillar of the U.S. State Department. He`s part of its institutional memory. He has been in the room for basically every important ne….

we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dolla….