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Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.

— James G. Stavridis

I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely.

— James G. Stavridis

What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.

— James G. Stavridis

As a 4-star admiral, I visited over a hundred U.S. embassies all around the world, and I never failed to see lines of locals…

— James G. Stavridis

I spent much of my life - almost 40 years - as a military officer. My specialty was in the part of the Navy…

— James G. Stavridis

All of my relatives on both sides of my family are from Allentown.

— James G. Stavridis

It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to…

— James G. Stavridis

Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in…

— James G. Stavridis

We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas.

— James G. Stavridis

The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.

— James G. Stavridis

Internal fights between various agencies, i.e. between the CIA and FBI, are highly counterproductive.

— James G. Stavridis

After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to…

— James G. Stavridis