95 Quotes by Ben Rhodes

Talking and diplomacy is often seen as a concession in America, in a way that it is not in other places.

We've supported the development of Cuba's private sector. This is a human rights issue - people should have the right to live with dignity and to control their livelihoods.

Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.

Our Cuba policy was a major obstacle to getting things done in the hemisphere and a source of tension around the world.

There are a very limited number of people in senior roles at the White House, and time is their most precious asset.

Where civil society thrives, governments operate with more transparency and accountability. This creates a tangible impact on the lives of everyday citizens.

Mandela was a guy who didn't come in and just eviscerate the existing institutions. He sought to co-opt them. He brought white South Africans into his government.

Laos is a deeply Buddhist country, and my visit included a traditional Tak Bat ceremony, in which you get up at sunrise and make offerings to Buddhist monks.

'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.