This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world,… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
The truth is, as you know, people like us look at what's happening in the world, and then we project it forward.… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill'… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
When the big guys in Washington dream of transforming the world, it’s the little guys who come home in body bags. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
“If you are one in a million in China, you’re one of 1,300 people.” — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a 'hinge.' And the truth, at once frightening and… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
