There are a lot of policies that don't work out that are nevertheless worth doing.

- Daniel Fried

I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.

- Daniel Fried

The sense the great democracies of the world - Europe, the United States, Japan, others - are going to set the agenda for the world. [Russians] want …

- Daniel Fried

Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup.

- Daniel Fried

We intend to leave it without further discussion. We respect this request by the government of Uzbekistan

- Daniel Fried

Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

- Daniel Fried

ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the th…

- Daniel Fried

The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.

- Daniel Fried

Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of w…

- Daniel Fried