Complexity Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

— Jonah Goldberg

So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or…

— Henry Rollins

I feel the president is ignoring the opinion of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made…

— Natalie Maines

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand…

— Mick Jagger

Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they're oblivious to…

— Marco Rubio

Americans in general, I think, don't understand the weight and gravity of foreign policy and how to engage the world at large.

— George P. Bush

The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned…

— Noam Chomsky

We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

— Ralph Peters

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

— Stephen Kinzer

It's plain that the American right wing, the Republicans and some sections of the Democratic Party, don't really care about international norms. They believe…

— Vijay Prashad

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it,…

— Christopher Morley

America needs a president who understands the nature of the world we live in.

— Fred Thompson