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American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.
— 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
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.
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The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.
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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.
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A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
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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
Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.
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Panic is a natural human response to danger, but it's one that severely compounds the risk.
— David Ignatius
