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If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#empire #history #long #look #nation

If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#areas #around #beautifully #beginning #being

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#cliche #days #different #empire #global

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#essentially #global #may #media #organizations

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#cannot #control #go #government #strong

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#coach #crushed #devastated #had #i

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#disparity #dynamic #expansion #few #get

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#correspondent #countries #foreign #history #i

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#any #countries #deployments #given #states

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#fact #give #in fact #individual #individual rights