Country Quote by Duncan Green

Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.

— Frederick Lenz

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence,

— Fareed Zakaria

People who want to go to power places all of the time and want to be around powerful people, they don't last long in…

— Frederick Lenz

I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are…

— Noam Chomsky

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

— Margaret Heffernan

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship…

— Arundhati Roy

If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world that exists.

— Austan Goolsbee

“Matters of the world are dealt with more vigor and effectiveness when one views them as the right of nature instead of the superficiality…

— VD

Whenever I speak to recent graduates, I urge them to go into my field - diplomacy.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested…

— Barry Eisler

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view -…

— Condoleezza Rice

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised;…

— Peter Singer