“The new members of NATO were so grateful for the U.S. role in getting them into that organization that they would do anything the U.S. asked for during that period.”

–Richard Clarke, Belfer Center faculty affiliate

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/19/report-cia-black-site-lithuania/?test=latestnews

“I think that if we have a situation where the Taliban comes into power in Afghanistan, it’s going to be very difficult to deter them from somehow hosting Al Qaida elements….”

-Thomas Hegghammer, associate of the Belfer Center’s Initiative on Religion in International Affairs and International Security Program

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0911/15/ampr.01.html

“No one is talking about leaving Afghanistan, or even standing pat. We are increasing our commitment.”

-Michele Flournoy, under secretary of defense for policy

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ht83_HM4xuTLmtOrA2ml8UqYTV3AD9BQJH4G0

“It’s important to think about a strategy of reaching out to all interested groups and really engage before, during, and post-Copenhagen.”

-Paula Dobriansky, Belfer Center senior fellow

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20091031_7714.php

“Just as in war, there are unintended victims so, too, in economic rescues, there are unintended beneficiaries.”

-Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council

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“The idea that the financial crisis is over is a fantasy and it looks like the numbers bear that out.”
– Niall Ferguson, member of the Belfer Center’s board of directors
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“I have rarely seen better coordination, between China and the United States in particular.”
- Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
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“For the foreseeable future the US will be growing at a much lower rate while China is in fact growing at a much faster rate.”
- Niall Ferguson, member of the Belfer Center’s board of directors
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“The Security Council has a unique and distinctive role in the international [nuclear control] regime, because it’s the only body that has the authority and the responsibility to address issues of non-compliance.”
- Gary Samore, National Security Council WMD coordinator
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“Investment in girls’ education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.”
-Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council
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