Quotes by : George Friedman

Their job as leader was not to solve the problem – the president really has little control over the....

... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don't....

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and....

Secularism drew a radical distinction between public and private life, in which religion, in any traditional....

The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates....

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with extensive....

The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one....

A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there....

The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduces....