113 Quotes by David Ignatius

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

Always be the first to move; don’t wait until the.

Iran is also engaged in the fight against ISIL for reasons of its own that include a desire not to see a reasonably friendly government in Baghdad falling. But it also includes its desire not to have ISIL’s ideology spread in the region where it lives.

If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups, the revolution will fail elsewhere.

Finding a needle in a haystack was not as hard as it sounded, if you had a thread tied to the needle.

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

Real power around the world does not reside with governments any longer, but with private interests. Real power is secret power.

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

If you are one in a million in China, you’re one of 1,300 people.