Ben Rhodes

I don't know anymore where I begin and Obama ends.

— Ben Rhodes

The U.S.-Israel relationship is so important.

— Ben Rhodes

Cuba has long played an outsized role in the world's imagination.

— Ben Rhodes

I never set out to work in the White House.

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Anthony Bourdain was the one who hooked me on Laos.

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Havana is a source of great pride to the Cuban people.

— Ben Rhodes

Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.

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We want a rules-based order in Asia-Pacific like we have had in the Atlantic.

— Ben Rhodes

There are a very limited number of people in senior roles at the White House, and time is their most precious asset.

— Ben Rhodes

The only place in the world where, I think, leaders have preferred Trump are in Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia and Israel.

— Ben Rhodes

The complete lack of governance in huge swaths of the Middle East - that is the project of the American establishment.

— Ben Rhodes

The TPP will be good for the American economy, the Vietnamese economy, and the labor and environmental standards that make life better…

— Ben Rhodes

Mandela was a guy who didn't come in and just eviscerate the existing institutions. He sought to co-opt them. He brought white…

— Ben Rhodes

Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.

— Ben Rhodes

One of the most depressing things about President Donald Trump's decision to roll back elements of the Cuba opening is how predictable…

— Ben Rhodes

In the course of a presidency, a U.S. president says millions of words in public. You never know which of them end…

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All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus. Now they don't. They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow…

— Ben Rhodes

If you are a speechwriter, you have to know what the person you're writing for thinks. A lot of foreign policy advisers…

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When I think of the things that Trump has done, ironically, everything is sort of - we care so much about Cuba…

— Ben Rhodes

To the developing world, Cuba has been a symbol of sovereignty and resistance and a supporter of revolution - for good or…

— Ben Rhodes

In both Burma and Laos, we have engaged countries that were once adversaries, and will continue to do so in ways that…

— Ben Rhodes

Active citizenship doesn't just mean running for office or going into politics; it means starting organisations that promote change or solve a…

— Ben Rhodes

Billions of people around the globe had come to know Barack Obama, had heard his words, had watched his speeches, and, in…

— Ben Rhodes

Japan hosts more forward-deployed U.S. troops than any other country and serves as home port for our only forward-deployed aircraft carrier. In…

— Ben Rhodes

We don't have to kind of be in cycles of conflict if we can find other ways to resolve these issues. We…

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The world order and American actions in the world have deep wiring.

— Ben Rhodes

Increased remittances to Cuba from the United States has helped Cuban families.

— Ben Rhodes

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

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A critical part of our relationship with Laos involves addressing the legacy of war.

— Ben Rhodes

I had the Secret Service actually patrolling my block at some point. I didn't sign up for that. I went to work…

— Ben Rhodes

The Benghazi attack was one of the more confusing, chaotic days that we had at work because you had these multiple violent…

— Ben Rhodes

As people who know me know, probably to a fault, I am usually not without thoughts and words.

— Ben Rhodes

America's trade policy has an enormous impact on the economic well-being of the American people and the strategic interests of the United…

— Ben Rhodes

Laos is a deeply Buddhist country, and my visit included a traditional Tak Bat ceremony, in which you get up at sunrise…

— Ben Rhodes

'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.

— Ben Rhodes

When it comes to Israel's security, our military and intelligence cooperation, that's off limits. That's protected. That's sacrosanct.

— Ben Rhodes

It was wrenching to read about the brutality of Assad every morning, to see images of family homes reduced to rubble. I…

— Ben Rhodes

I don't think people realize how many decisions the president of the United States makes about military action.

— Ben Rhodes

For more than fifty years, Americans and Cubans have been isolated from one another even though Cuba is only 90 miles away…

— Ben Rhodes

I was a relatively anonymous guy, and for whatever reason, I became one of the villains for the Right.

— Ben Rhodes