I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.
As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.
In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.
Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.
The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.
Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.
I've always found it much more dangerous to fool with a man's mistress than his wife.
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.
People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.
I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza