Richard Haass Quotations

I wish we had never gotten to the point we are now. We ought to make this work. We have got to confront the opponents before us.

We cannot sustain this degree of guns, this amount of butter and this level of taxes.

There's a daisy chain that stems from the fact that no weapons of mass destruction have been found.

Save your breath. The president has already made up his mind.

The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.

The most dangerous delusion is that a conflict would be either small or quick.

The biggest thing these appointments tell you about the direction of U.S. foreign policy is that there is no direction.

I do think there's been progress in some areas. In the last four years, for example, I think the world has become a tougher place for terrorists to operate in.