National Security

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Politics

Idealism

1928–2017

"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."

🇺🇸Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

Science

b. 1953

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."

🇺🇸Max Boot

Military

b. 1968

"Catering to populist anger with proposals that are certain to fail is not a viable strategy for political success."

🇺🇸A. James Gregor

Science

1929–2019

"Mussolini insisted that Fascism was the only form of ‘socialism’ appropriate to the ‘proletarian nations’ of the twentieth century."

🇺🇸Paul D. Miller (academic)

Politics

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

🇺🇸James Clapper

Entertainment

b. 1941

"Russia's aim wasn't to get anyone to actually believe the crazy stories they were publishing...The point of their influence operation was to overwhelm facts, to sow doubt that facts were even knowable."

🇺🇸Colin Powell

Politics

1937–2021

"I may be down, but never out. An infantry officer can do anything."