Martin Donovan Quotes

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

History teaches that the rise of new great powers often triggers major global conflict.

I think 'The East' is political.

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

You know in the West they support realistic forces.

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.

Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and challenge.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

The essence of American politics consists of the manipulation of populism by elitism.

The term Party is applied equally to the peaceful parties of America and to the Communist Party of Russia, the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Fascist Party of Italy. The methodology of these parties varies, but their fundamental objective-to place and keep their leaders in control of the government - is the same.

Hardly a man came out of wartime Washington whose ways of thinking were not profoundly influenced by that environment. The liberal tenets had become a dogma that a man questioned at his peril.

It's a very popular sport [in America] to talk about power struggle[s] in the Kremlin.

We were willing to support almost any scoundrel almost anywhere around the globe provided he was willing to wave an anti-Communist banner.