Stephen Kinzer

Mayors of New York are almost automatically national figures.

— Stephen Kinzer

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.

— Stephen Kinzer

Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.

— Stephen Kinzer

Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.

— Stephen Kinzer

Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.

— Stephen Kinzer

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

— Stephen Kinzer

Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.

— Stephen Kinzer

Foreign interventions always end badly.

— Stephen Kinzer

As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program.

— Stephen Kinzer

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.

— Stephen Kinzer

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns…

— Stephen Kinzer

Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's…

— Stephen Kinzer

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.

— Stephen Kinzer

Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.

— Stephen Kinzer

Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.

— Stephen Kinzer

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of…

— Stephen Kinzer

Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical…

— Stephen Kinzer

Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that…

— Stephen Kinzer

Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his…

— Stephen Kinzer

Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business,…

— Stephen Kinzer

Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't…

— Stephen Kinzer

If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is…

— Stephen Kinzer

Not all eagles can be trained, but those who take to life with a master display intense loyalty. Although they are not…

— Stephen Kinzer

It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the…

— Stephen Kinzer

“Acheson immediately understood the urgency of this message. He summoned Ambassador Franks and told him that the United States resolutely opposed “the…

— Stephen Kinzer

Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military…

— Stephen Kinzer

American press, like the press in many countries, acts like a cheerleader to our government rather than a critical observer. This is…

— Stephen Kinzer

During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call…

— Stephen Kinzer

Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907,…

— Stephen Kinzer

Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-sponsored healthcare, was sympathetic to gay rights, and opposed…

— Stephen Kinzer

I don't have any problem with the United States acting on behalf of its own interests. That's what big powers do; that's…

— Stephen Kinzer

“the thirteenth-century mystic Jelaluddin Rumi, reject orthodoxy of any kind: I hold to no religion or creed, am neither Eastern nor Western,…

— Stephen Kinzer

“There was no response. Soon afterward, a skiff flying the Spanish flag approached the Charleston. Two Spanish officers came aboard and apologized…

— Stephen Kinzer

The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

— Stephen Kinzer

Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.

— Stephen Kinzer

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.

— Stephen Kinzer

Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.

— Stephen Kinzer

One day, Mexico will have a leader who is nationalist not simply in rhetoric, but also in fact.

— Stephen Kinzer

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

— Stephen Kinzer

The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with…

— Stephen Kinzer