Ned Price Quotes
While significant differences between our governments continue, the progress of the last two years reminds the world of what is possible when we are defined not by the past but by the future we can build together.
For over 50 years both the United States and Cuba had carried grudges about the Bay of Pigs, the boycott on purcuase of life saving medicine and U. S. attempts to assassiate Fidel Castro on the Cuban site, and the expropriation of Americans' Coban Prepoert, the poor record on human rights, the Mariel Boat Lift, and the harboring of American criminals for the United States. The policy positions held by the two nations had not produced anything constructive so the parties agreed to try and build closer ties. In just two years of a limited reproachment some progress had been made and Prices point about getting beyond the past tried to get all focussed on the future.
Ned Price. "Statement by NSC Spokesperson Ned Price on Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes' Travel to Cuba", January 16, 2017
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In his younger days Jinnah was considered one of the greatest of the Indian Politicians in the Congress Party and all of India. Even though he was a Muslim, his leadership and political philosophy was appreciated by educated and politically active Indians of all faiths and casts. He was also so considered by the English Viceroy and his staff and noted by the politicians in England as a man who could bring Indians together without regard for religious or socio-economic status. He underwent a number of personal tragedies and changed radically until he was not only a sectarian Muslim leader but threatened and facilitated Islamic terrorism against all the other religions. Jinnah's flip flop on this point led to one of the great massacres and tragedies in human history" The Nightingale of India
Turkey had just defeated a Greek invading army with bitter atrocities on both sides. The two countries were bitter enemies. His colleagues thought Ataturk had lost is sense of reality to even suggest such a thing. 50 years later Greece and Turkey were both in NATO.
Current: Special Assistant to the President, Spokesperson, and Senior Director, National Security Council at The White House Location: Washington, District Of Columbia Experience Special Assistant to the President The White House · 2016 -19`7
