"It should never be the goal of U.S. foreign policy towards any country to have a - quote, unquote - "good relation." Then what? What do we get out of that? We get - Trump is helping the approval ratings amongst Russians. How does that advance American national security interests?"

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Michael McFaul

#Country Quotes #Goal Quotes #Helping Quotes

“No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.”
“What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.”
“True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.”
“Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.”

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd
“People don't think I'm big enough to be mean. I don't look big enough, but I am.”
“They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.”
“In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.”
“Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.”

Source : Allen Tate (1967). “T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work”, London : Chatto & Windus

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