Democracy Quote by Robert D. Kaplan

“And so this is where the post Cold War has brought us: to the recognition that the very totalitarism that we fought against in…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Or take the opportunity offered to the United States following the attacks of September 11, 2001, when both Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mohammed…

— Robert D. Kaplan

When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down,…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“One marker, which I would read a bit later on, tells the familiar story of Narcissa Whitman, "trail-blazer and martyred missionary," who followed the…

— Robert D. Kaplan

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a…

— Robert D. Kaplan

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“So far we have seen the weakening and collapse of small and medium-sized states in Africa and the Middle East. But quasi-anarchy in larger…

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”

— Robert D. Kaplan

“Macedonia, the inspiration for the French word for "mixed salad" (macedoine), defines the principle illness of the Balkans: conflicting dreams of lost imperial glory.…

— Robert D. Kaplan

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political…

— Robert D. Kaplan

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

— Robert D. Kaplan

The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be.

— Robert D. Kaplan