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🇺🇸Dennis Ross

Politics

b. 1948

"I mean, they have a guy like Dennis Ross at the White House now, who’s always been a part of the Israel lobby. They put him in charge of the whole Muslim world."

🇺🇸Stephen Sestanovich

"In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness."

"With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford."

"Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms."

"There is no War on Terrorism; it is The Great Game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all."

🇺🇸Paul D. Miller (academic)

Politics

"ocialism violates economic freedom, destroys incentive, muffles innovation and entrepreneurship, and undermines meritocracy."

"o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so."

"Far from paving the way for a halcyon future of prosperity and stability, the digital era promises to usher in as profound a political and social transformation as that wrought by the arrival of the industrial age."

"Humans sometimes make surprising choices, and human history is full of uncertainties."

"What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles."

"I think I was just being myself for a moment there...Look, I think people should be kind of light about this. It's something that plenty of people have heard in their lives for sure."

"I define an antiracist as someone who is expressing an antiracist idea or supporting or an antiracist policy, policies that yield racial equity, while antiracist ideas talk about the equality of racial groups…"

"Collection of all of Kennan's articles published in Foreign Affairs"

"Sooner or later, Mr. Bush argued, sanctions would force Mr. Hussein's generals to bring him down, and then Washington would have the best of all worlds: an iron-fisted Iraqi junta without Saddam Hussein."

"hould we be afraid? Yes. But understand that what we think we fear may not exhaust its real sources."

"The increased stature, and affluence, and enfranchisement of American Muslims...will present true dangers to American Jews."

🇪🇬Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Politics

1922–2016

"Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead."

"We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom."

"Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars."

"The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war."

"The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order."

"The force de frappe was little more than symbolism; it relieved neither France nor Europe from strategic dependence on the United States..."

"Kuomintang is an inclusive political party, and different opinions can be discussed."

"If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be created."

🇺🇸Samuel P. Huntington

Education

1927–2008

"Samuel Huntington explaining himself his book and thesis about the clash of civilization in a 1997 interview with Charlie Rose"

"It’s also important for Washington to hold quiet consultations with Beijing to prepare jointly for a unified Korea under Seoul’s direction, a new polity that will be free, peaceful, capitalist, pro-U.S. and pro-China."

"The free market tide has now receded. In its place has come state capitalism, a system in which the state functions as the leading economic actor and uses markets primarily for political gain."

"Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist."

"So here’s the puzzle: Realist advice has performed better than its main rivals over the past two-and-a-half decades, yet realists are largely absent from prominent mainstream publications."

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