William Pfaff

"Foreign policy deals across time as well as space."

"The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres."

"The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years."

"Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion."

"But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think."

"The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old."

"America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas."

"The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer."