Richard N. Haass

Clearly the President though is making an investment in Kim Jong-un. Clearly he believes, Anderson, that flattery and personal relationships and chemistry somehow hold the key to what's going to happen here.

I hope he's right, but I'm profoundly skeptical.

The lesson of Libya, not to mention the lesson of Iraq, not to mention the lesson of Ukraine, is to keep hold of your nuclear weapons.

Well, obviously, Anderson, every case is specific. In the case of South Korea, the United States hurt itself tremendously by walking away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership which wasn't just a trade agreement but really was a strategic…

Everything we do, everything we are as a society, as an economy, sends a message, sets an example. So Charlottesville, that's foreign policy. When the economy grows, that's foreign policy.

I think it's diminished respect for us. You see that most strongly in Europe, say, when the U.S. walked away from the Paris Climate Pact or they see things going on in this country that to them doesn't represent the America they thought…

The president's anti-German rhetoric is short sighted politically and wrong economically.

It's clear that the center of foreign policy decision making is the White House. It's the president. It's Jared Kushner.

I think it would be criminal as a society--or negligent, I will use a better word--for us not to do certain sorts of things to put us on a safer trajectory.

The dollar plays a role that no other currency plays.

It is necessary but not sufficient that Iran not be permitted to assemble one or more nuclear bombs.

The agreement with Iran does not alter the reality that Egypt is pursuing a political trajectory unlikely to result in sustained stability.