Richard N. Haass

Terrorists and terrorism cannot be eliminated any more than we can rid the world of disease. There will always be those who…

— Richard N. Haass

There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.

— Richard N. Haass

Security is the absolute precondition for sustainable recovery from conflict; without it, people cannot rebuild their country or return to school or…

— Richard N. Haass

When great powers fade, as they inevitably must, it's normally for one of two reasons. Some powers exhaust themselves through overreach abroad,…

— Richard N. Haass

Americans never would alter the way entitlement programs are funded or education administered without serious study and widespread debate.

— Richard N. Haass

Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.

— Richard N. Haass

America's armed forces are an essential background to much of what the U.S. accomplishes internationally.

— Richard N. Haass

No amount of sanctioning will persuade North Korea to give up nuclear weapons, nor will China step up and solve the problem…

— Richard N. Haass

Weapons of mass destruction - nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons - are just that, and no cause can excuse their use.

— Richard N. Haass

No one pursuing reasonable goals and who is prepared to compromise can argue that terrorism is his or his group's only option.

— Richard N. Haass

The rise of populism is in part a response to stagnating incomes and job loss, owing mostly to new technologies but widely…

— Richard N. Haass

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

— Richard N. Haass

What countries must do to join the World Trade Organization is precisely what they must do to become productive and democratic: accept…

— Richard N. Haass

I believe in diplomacy; I don't believe in talking to... that talking to Iran somehow constitutes a concession or a favour.

— Richard N. Haass

I've worked for four presidents, and I've concluded that almost nothing is inevitable. History is to a significant extent the result of…

— Richard N. Haass

Any time you use military force, you have got to have a clear purpose that military forces can achieve.

— Richard N. Haass

It is difficult to think of a foreign policy issue that preoccupies and polarizes world opinion as much as the Palestinian question.

— Richard N. Haass

For President Bush, the first, the 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush, I spent all 4 years of his presidency on the…

— Richard N. Haass

Generically, wars in necessity are wars where, I think, the vital interest of the nation are at stake, in which there are…

— Richard N. Haass

The decision to attack Iraq in March 2003 was discretionary; it was a war of choice.

— Richard N. Haass

The United States is not just another country. It has more capacity and potential to influence the world than any other country…

— Richard N. Haass

American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the…

— Richard N. Haass

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

— Richard N. Haass

Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.

— Richard N. Haass

If the president Donald Trump had connected the Jerusalem question to some other positions, linking it to Israeli and Palestinian behavior or…

— Richard N. Haass