“ Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run. Malcolm Lowry
“ International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons. Egon Bahr
“ There is only one sensible way to think of the Pacific Ocean today. It is the highway between Asia and America, and whether we with it or not, from now on there will be immense traffic along that high… James A. Michener
“ The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that our security would be imperiled if, the very next day, Obama and Medved… Fred Kaplan
“ [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of… Zbigniew Brzezinski
“ Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be purs… Zbigniew Brzezinski
“ From the many years he’d spent in the Omega Agency, the special agent understood there were no obvious good guys or bad guys on the world stage. Contrary to the PR spin generated within Congress and s… James Morcan