"The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U.S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused."

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Source : "Central Challenges of U.S. Foreign Policy: Five Questions with Graham Allison". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com.

Graham T. Allison

#Confused Quotes #War Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.”
“Early on in my career I had the kind of anxious where you couldn't sleep at night. That anxiousness is like a virus we all have in us. Some you can deal with but some will wipe you out.”
“But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.”
“There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.”
“You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.”
“And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.”

Source : "Lessons In Leadership: It's Not About You. (It's About Them)". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. November 11, 2013.
“Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.”

Source : Winifred Kirkland (1918). “The Joys of Being a Woman and other Papers”, p.23, Library of Alexandria

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