“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.” — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less. — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end.… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound. — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty. — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
“Americans, in foreign policy, are torn to the point of schizophrenia. They are reluctant, than aggressive; asleep at the switch, then quick on the… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
Under our Constitution, military leaders have no choice but to endorse the president's decision after giving him their best advice. — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.” — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition. — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between… — Robert Kagan Copy Share Image
