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Robert Kagan Inspirational Quotes (10)

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When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.
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When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.
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Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
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Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.
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In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.
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It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.
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If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.
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I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.
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Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.
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When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
Robert Kagan