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Nicholas Burns

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Nicholas Burns

@RNicholasBurns

Harvard Professor. Former U.S. Ambassador to China and career Foreign Service Officer. Husband, father and grandfather.

Joined November 2012

Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Nov 15, 2019
I’ve never seen this happen at a Congressional hearing. Masha Yovanovitch deserved this tribute and applause.
Miriam Elder
@MiriamElder
Nov 15, 2019
Yovanovitch ends her testimony to applause from the public
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Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Jul 19, 2019
Chancellor Merkel’s repudiation of Pres. Trump’s racist comments is stunning. She defends the values of the West and for the first time a modern American President does not.
Tilo Jung
@TiloJung
Jul 19, 2019
German chancellor Merkel on Trump's racist attacks on female members of Congress: "I firmly distance myself from that and declare my solidarity with these attacked women." @AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib @AyannaPressley
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Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Feb 2, 2025
On 9/11, when I was U.S. Ambassador to #NATO, the very first country that came to our defense was #Canada. Canadian forces then fought with us in Afghanistan. Lesson for Americans: Treasure our allies. Respect them. They’re on our side.
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Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Nov 24, 2019
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public.” Theodore Roosevelt
Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Nov 19, 2019
Consider the moral depravity of a President who allows his son to launch a vicious attack on a decorated American military officer.
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Nov 19, 2019
Anyone listening to Vindman stammer through this seemingly trying to remember the Catch Phrases he was well coached on should get that. He’s a low level partisan bureaucrat and nothing more.
Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Jan 25, 2020
This man occupies the office of Lincoln, FDR, Eisenhower, Reagan. Is this behavior really acceptable to the American people?
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Jan 25, 2020
Our case against lyin’, cheatin’, liddle’ Adam “Shifty” Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, Nervous Nancy Pelosi, their leader, dumb as a rock AOC, & the entire Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrat Party, starts today at 10:00 A.M. on @FoxNews, @OANN or Fake News @CNN or Fake News MSDNC!
Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Jun 10, 2018
#Canada spirited four American hostages out of Iran in 1979, welcomed thousands of stranded U.S. airline passengers on 9/11, has our back in every war, shares the world’s longest undefended border with us and a symbiotic North American economy. THE best neighbor we could have.
Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Aug 26, 2020
This speech by Secretary Pompeo is a major mistake. It politicizes his office, our relationship with Israel and does what he asked every State Department employee not to do—engage in partisan political activity in an election year.
Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Jun 10, 2018
On 9/11, I was the American Ambassador to #NATO. The first person to suggest NATO invoke Article 5 to defend the U.S. was Canadian Ambassador David Wright. Canadian forces have fought and died with us in Afghanistan. They are still there with us. Eternally grateful. #Canada
Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Jun 10, 2018
#Canada spirited four American hostages out of Iran in 1979, welcomed thousands of stranded U.S. airline passengers on 9/11, has our back in every war, shares the world’s longest undefended border with us and a symbiotic North American economy. THE best neighbor we could have.
Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Nov 17, 2019
Still stunned by Trump’s attack on Masha Yovanovitch. By his contempt for the Foreign Service. By Pompeo’s failure to defend his own people. The silver lining is Americans have now seen—through Masha, George Kent and Bill Taylor—the value of patriotic nonpartisan diplomats.
Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Apr 22, 2020
This story hasn’t received sufficient attention: the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee found that Russia interfered in our 2016 election. An irrefutable, bipartisan conclusion. It turns out that facts matter. via @nytimes
Republican-Led Review Backs Intelligence Findings on Russian Interference (Published 2020)
From nytimes.com
Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Oct 3, 2019
This is a first in American history dating to 1789. An American President has asked our strongest adversary, a communist dictatorship, to investigate his major opponent. Let that sink in. It is corruption—morally and legally wrong.
Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
Oct 3, 2019
This is beyond parody. Pres. Trump, under impeachment investigation for pressuring Ukraine to go after the Bidens, publicly asks China to go after the Bidens as well. The word "shameless" is inadequate.
Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Jul 23, 2018
Hamilton warned in 1792: “When a man unprincipled in private life...is seen to...flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day—it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Jul 23, 2018
To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
Sep 27, 2019
Lost in the Trump scandal over Ukraine are the national security implications. Trump has weakened our bipartisan support for Ukraine and benefited Putin in the process. American credibility with allies is plummeting. They don’t believe Trump is capable of doing the right thing.