Thomas P.M. Barnett Quotes

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• Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
• Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.
• If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man…
• Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.
• Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.
• An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is…
• The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of…
• The fracking revolution kicks off two additional mini-revolutions in energy: the accelerated shift to natural gas-powered vehicles, reducing the oil demand even further, and the…
• The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.
• We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality…
• I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start,…
• Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.
• Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
• During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We simply…
• Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.
• Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

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