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Ben Rhodes
American
Public Servant
Born:
Nov 14
,
1977
American
Cuba
People
Work
World
You
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What people admire about Prime Minister Modi is that he is an ambitious leader who is trying to elevate India economically, and enlisting all Indians in that project will make it more successful.
Ben Rhodes
People
Will
Leader
Project
Minister
India
Admire
Indians
About
More
He
Prime
Economically
Prime Minister
Make
Ambitious
Trying
Successful
Who
Elevate
There's this constant narrative of anxieties: Is the U.S. in decline? Is China rising? People forget... no other country is trying to play the role we play. They're not signing up to be responsible for security in the Middle East, responsible for the global economy, responsible for enforcing international norms.
Ben Rhodes
People
Country
Other
East
Responsible
Security
Signing
Constant
Rising
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Narrative
Up
Norms
Role
Forget
Trying
Anxieties
Middle
Middle East
China
Decline
Enforcing
International
Play
What I do miss is foreign travel, because there really is no substitute for showing up somewhere and representing the United States.
Ben Rhodes
Travel
Somewhere
States
Miss
Because
Foreign
Up
Representing
Substitute
Really
Showing
Showing Up
United
United States
When I first went to work in the West Wing, the most daunting thing was how small this place was... You walk in: it's three floors, and there's a few offices on each floor, and that's it.
Ben Rhodes
Work
You
Walk
Three
First
Few
Wing
Small
Daunting
Most
How
West
West Wing
Offices
Place
Each
Floor
Floors
Thing
The events of my twenties felt historic, but the people involved did not. I wanted a hero - someone who could make sense of what was happening around me and in some way redeem it.
Ben Rhodes
Me
People
Events
Hero
Sense
Way
Some
Someone
Could
Involved
Redeem
Make
Around
Felt
Historic
Did
Wanted
Happening
Who
Twenties
Billions of people around the globe had come to know Barack Obama, had heard his words, had watched his speeches, and, in some unknowable but irreducible way, had come to see the world as a place that could - in some incremental way - change.
Ben Rhodes
Change
People
Words
World
Unknowable
Incremental
Way
Obama
See
Some
Could
Had
Come
Know
Globe
Around
His
Heard
Place
Barack
Barack Obama
Billions
Watched
Speeches
As people who know me know, probably to a fault, I am usually not without thoughts and words.
Ben Rhodes
Me
Thoughts
People
Words
Fault
Know
Without
Am
Who
The only place in the world where, I think, leaders have preferred Trump are in Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Ben Rhodes
World
Think
Arabia
Only
Leaders
Israel
Trump
Where
Place
Preferred
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.
Ben Rhodes
Past
Military
Ghost
American
American Military
There are a very limited number of people in senior roles at the White House, and time is their most precious asset.
Ben Rhodes
Time
People
White
White House
Most
House
Limited
Very
Precious
Roles
Senior
Asset
Number
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.
Ben Rhodes
Government
White
Brought
Guy
He
Come
Institutions
Sought
His
South
Existing
Just
Mandela
African
Them
Who
'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.
Ben Rhodes
Great
Russia
Putin
Make
America
Soviet
Soviet Union
Different
Nostalgia
Again
Union
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