Ivo Daalder Quotes

Netherlands, Public Servant
March 2, 1960

Ivo H. Daalder, has served as President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs since July, 2013. He was the U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from May 2009 to July 2013. He is a specialist in European security. He was a member of the staff of United States National Security Council (NSC) during the administration of President Bill Clinton, and was one of the foreign policy advisers to President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign

One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it.

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I think when the military ousts a sitting president, even if the sitting president is deeply unpopular, that's the definition of a coup.

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- Military
- President
- Coup

America is a country of immigrants. It's what makes America unique.

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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?

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- Trump
- Lead
- Allies
Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq.

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- Terrorists
- Everywhere
On climate change, the science is clearer about what you need to do to get a real impact than... on counterterrorism.

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A big challenge in combating terrorism is learning how to think about things that we can't imagine.

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We have not been a normal country when it comes to engagement in the world.

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- World
- Country
- Engagement

Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.

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- Politics
- Russia
- Center
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.

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