Exchange of the Day

Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, talked with Samuel Benson of the Deseret News:

BENSON: If you could tell Americans to pay attention to one thing in the world right now, what would it be?

FLAKE: I think there’s a strain of politics — I think a malignant strain — right now that says, we can shut the world out, and that we can be more peaceful, more secure, more prosperous, by shutting the world out. And I think that is wrong. We need alliances. We need friendships. And that’s one thing that I’ve always known. It’s certainly been reinforced, particularly after Ukraine. You need friends, you need allies. And you can’t say, “Well, we disagree on this issue, and so we won’t do anything together.”