It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

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It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

Robert D. Kaplan in Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
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What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

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It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

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The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

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The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

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