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It is never too late to apply good sense as a corrective to stupidity. — David Ignatius

American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean. — David Ignatius

I'm as prone to 'declinism' as the next over-mortgaged middle-aged guy. — David Ignatius

In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach. — David Ignatius

Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy. — David Ignatius

U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the U.S. economy. — David Ignatius

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation. — David Ignatius

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies. — David Ignatius

Politicians often call for sanctions as a way of sounding tough when they don't want to take riskier measures. — David Ignatius

Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic. — David Ignatius

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story. — David Ignatius

Real security will come when it's a moneymaker for private companies who want to satisfy public demand for an Internet that isn't crawling with bugs. — David Ignatius

The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense. — David Ignatius

The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions. — David Ignatius

European Muslims need to feel ownership of security, rather than viewing the police as an occupying army. — David Ignatius

Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge. — David Ignatius

The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address. — David Ignatius

When the big guys in Washington dream of transforming the world, it's the little guys who come home in body bags. — David Ignatius

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me. — David Ignatius

Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran. — David Ignatius

We have a complicated intelligence relationship with France. We have a complicated intelligence relationship with other - with other allies. — David Ignatius

Luck is the residue of good planning. — David Ignatius

Things felt pretty crazy on earth in 1969, but the cosmos was friendly. Astronauts had round-trip tickets; they got home. — David Ignatius

'Cyber-security' is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy. — David Ignatius

The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream. — David Ignatius

Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations. — David Ignatius

Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems. — David Ignatius

The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious. — David Ignatius

A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world. — David Ignatius

Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers. — David Ignatius

Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works. — David Ignatius

The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success. — David Ignatius

The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary. — David Ignatius

I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq. — David Ignatius

Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers. — David Ignatius

During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator. — David Ignatius

Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States. — David Ignatius

A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation. — David Ignatius

Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation. — David Ignatius

If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general. — David Ignatius

Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that's only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship. — David Ignatius

Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do. — David Ignatius

Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation. — David Ignatius

Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders. — David Ignatius

Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk. — David Ignatius

Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months. — David Ignatius

It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era. — David Ignatius