Quotes by Robert Kaplan

• 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.
• 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.
• What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.
• It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
• 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.