David Ignatius

Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.

— David Ignatius

Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in…

— David Ignatius

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

It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that…

— David Ignatius

I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq.

— David Ignatius

If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general.

— David Ignatius

“If you are one in a million in China, you’re one of 1,300 people.”

— David Ignatius

2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a 'hinge.' And the truth, at once…

— David Ignatius

Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis…

— David Ignatius

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

— David Ignatius

Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.

— David Ignatius

The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if…

— David Ignatius

CIA officers aren't idiots. They knew they were heading into deep water - legally and morally - when they signed up for…

— David Ignatius

Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.

— David Ignatius

'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way…

— David Ignatius

Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.

— David Ignatius

Chinese experts noted that the U.S. economy has rebounded from the 2008 crash more strongly than some analysts here had expected, while…

— David Ignatius

President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information.…

— David Ignatius

“Three Rules for When You Are Under Fire: 1) Always have a plan for what to do if something bad happens.”

— David Ignatius

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world,…

— David Ignatius

The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good…

— David Ignatius

Russia is emerging as an essential diplomatic and security partner for the U.S. in Syria, despite the Obama administration's opposition to Moscow's…

— David Ignatius

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.

— David Ignatius

Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become…

— David Ignatius