Lincoln is quoted more often than he's understood, and he understood that the founding principle of our nation … - Daniel Fried

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Daniel Fried

Lincoln is quoted more often than he's understood, and he understood that the founding principle of our nation is, in fact, the Declaration of Independence.

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Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.

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No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

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I think the West is in a low point we haven`t seen since the 1930s.

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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.

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The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise the Poles about how to build a post-communist economy. Same people, same advice, with radically different results, which leads to suspicion it's not our advice which was the crucial variable. It was the Poles, on one hand, and the Russians on the other. The Poles succeeded; the Russians didn't. Don't blame us.

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