Quotes by : George Friedman

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

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance....

... 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 great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them....

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from....

Long-term solutions are more attractive and cause much less controversy than short-term solutions, which....

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