Antony Blinken Quotes

Antony Blinken

Profession : Statesman

Birth : April 16, 1962

In times of crisis, credibility is an American president's most valuable currency.

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When it comes to sowing doubt about democracy and fueling dissension among Americans, Mr. Putin is eating our lunch.

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While the United States has often taken the wrong path, it has rarely failed to demonstrate - at least in the long run - the courage to reverse its steps.

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Beijing's foreign investments can be coercive and exploitative - using Chinese laborers and contractors instead of local ones, saddling poorer countries with enormous debts, leaving behind shoddy workmanship and fueling corruption.

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Without Madeleine Albright, our community of democracies might be smaller.

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Mr. Trump knows that banning travel to the United States from a half dozen Muslim-majority countries would do nothing to enhance our security - and everything to undermine it.

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In my judgment, the JCPOA for whatever its limitations, was succeeding on its own terms in blocking Iran's pathways to producing fissile material for a nuclear weapon on short order.

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During the Clinton administration, engagement, backed by the threat of force, convinced Pyongyang to freeze its dangerous nuclear program and put a moratorium on the production of long-range missiles.

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By alienating Muslim communities and our closest allies, Mr. Trump would destroy the partnerships we need to effectively fight terror.

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When we're in the business of picking fights with our allies instead of working with them, that takes away from our strength in dealing with China.

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It's true that no policy fully survives first contact. But if you don't spend time anticipating the shots you are likely to take, you wind up flailing about wildly.

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The United States will rightfully go on deploring human rights excesses in the Soviet Union. And it is hardly likely Americans will one day espouse the communist ideology. But nowhere does it say we cannot live in peace with the U.S.S.R. In the nuclear age, there is truly no alternative.

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The lessons Noam Chomsky sets out to teach us in 'Toward a New Cold War' are invaluable. The United States, like any other nations, can and does err, and often in a big way. But Chomsky cannot support at all his implicit diagnosis that America is 'bad.'

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We have a serious commitment to Taiwan being able to defend itself.

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President Trump's daily assault on our own democracy, on its institutions, on its values, on its people, that's deeply tarnished our ability to lead.

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I think that over time, China believes that it - it - it can be and should be and will be the dominant country in the world.

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As Vietnam opens its markets and strengthens fundamental rights, the relationship between our nations will continue to grow - to the benefit of both our citizens.

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President-elect Biden is committed to the proposition that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon.

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The Iran nuclear deal, the so-called JCPOA, was very effective in cutting off all of the pathways that Iran then had to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon. And we know that that agreement was working.

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As deputy secretary of state, I spent hours with my Turkish counterparts trying to find a modus vivendi for continuing American support to the Syrian Democratic Forces.

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