George Perkovich Quotes (15 Quotes)

The goal seems to have been to give away as much as possible.

There's recognition from Iraq that the U.S. cannot solve the Iran problem alone. Related to that, there is no military option that gives you high confidence that you've solved the nuclear issue, even for a short time, without creating consequences that are so bad that you can't work with them.

It's a very proud civilization. They went through the (Iran-Iraq) war and the revolution. They're certainly capable of suffering.

We mishandled the Iran connection from the beginning and there has been a screw-up. We have made it harder for the Indians.

Pakistan may be driven to test a nuclear device for political reasons within the country, (to) show its own people that it can do this, even though, from the standpoint of a national interest, it would be better off not testing.

The Iranian regime is certainly not looking to provoke a similar reaction, experts say, but on the other hand it is taking similar stabs at the global economic system as it faces waves of mostly Western-based criticism. Basically they are just throwing stuff out, ... throwing out these ideas in an effort to stay on the offensive.

The Bush administration has had difficulty mustering support for the India deal. The U. S. gave everything India wanted and got little in return, ... They framed the deal as necessary to cement a strategic partnership with India, and then this partner turns around and sides with Iran. That's not very strategic.

It is hard to see anything meaningful emerging. The talks weren't a step forward or backwards. The administration overestimated their power and logic and underestimated the problems and they are panicking.

The strategic challenge the Bush administration faced was to convince the rest of the world that Iran is more dangerous than the United States.

It's part of a very intelligent, creative Iranian strategy - to go on the offense in every way possible and mobilize other actors against the US.

India's claim to be a leader or at least an upstanding upholder of the nonproliferation system would be invalidated by looking the other way in the face of Iran's clear violations.

I think it would be absolutely shocking that they not have some idea. There were planes flying back and forth.

This deal not only lets India amass as many nuclear weapons as it wants, it looks like we made no effort to try to curtail them.

U. S. policy has been to try to scare the rest of the world about Iran, and what we've missed is that the rest of the world is more scared of us. We've got to get them to be less afraid of us.

I don't understand how the Europeans can guarantee fuel supply if the U.S. isn't explicitly saying it won't impose sanctions on companies that cooperate with the Iranians,