Quotes Tagged With :statecraft

We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to defend....

No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work,....

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.....

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.....

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political....

The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about....

Pointing out the possible, and expensive, entanglements that could come with widespread commercial enterprise,....

As the pace of the campaign quickened, politics began to clash with Kennedy's innate sense of responsibility.....

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely....