George Friedman Quotes

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but t...

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with ex...

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air an...

The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or o...

Long-term solutions are more attractive and cause much less controversy than short-term solutions, w...

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone throug...

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass...

Secularism drew a radical distinction between public and private life, in which religion, in any tra...

The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance the...

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into acco...

Their job as leader was not to solve the problem – the president really has little control over the ...

The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and unde...

The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduce...

... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from...

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they d...

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distan...