Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they’re essentially global. Robert D. Kaplan Read Quote
When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field. Robert D. Kaplan Read Quote
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. Robert D. Kaplan Read Quote
Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We’re living our lives inside one form of corporation or another. Robert D. Kaplan Read Quote
A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don’t even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they’re so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it’s the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic ‘newsworthy’ events. Robert D. Kaplan Read Quote
Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you’ve got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there. Robert D. Kaplan Read Quote
The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments. Robert D. Kaplan Read Quote
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. Robert D. Kaplan Read Quote
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. Robert D. Kaplan Read Quote
We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on. Robert D. Kaplan Read Quote
