George Perkovich Quotations

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,

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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