The only place I’ve ever been where people were as proud about their city as people are in Chicago is Florence, Italy, where I lived for three years. Ivo Daalder Read Quote
Trump believes all foreigners are playing us for suckers – he sees the world as a dark place. How can you lead alliances when you keep telling your allies they are ripping you off? Ivo Daalder Read Quote
Anybody who has been to Chicago has a very positive view. But not everybody has come to Chicago, and in many ways, Chicago is an undiscovered treasure. It punches below its weight internationally. Ivo Daalder Read Quote
The more Trump emphasises America First, the more it turns into America Alone. Ivo Daalder Read Quote
We have built up, through our global engagement, a set of institutions that have been built on trust, fundamentally on trust, where allies had trust in the United States to do the right thing when it really came down to it. Ivo Daalder Read Quote
A big challenge in combating terrorism is learning how to think about things that we can’t imagine. Ivo Daalder Read Quote
One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it. Ivo Daalder Read Quote
Donald Trump has proven adept at mobilizing anti-immigrant and anti-trade sentiment among a minority of Americans into a strong movement that seeks to put the United States first in global affairs. Yet, his is not the majority’s view. Ivo Daalder Read Quote
Many observers believe that the greatest damage Russia has done to U.S. interests in recent years stems from the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Although there is no question that Moscow’s meddling in American elections is deeply worrying, it is just one aspect of the threat Russia poses. Ivo Daalder Read Quote
I think George H.W. Bush was confronted with some huge challenges – the invasion of Kuwait, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Soviet Union – that he managed with great aplomb. Ivo Daalder Read Quote
