In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need them most urgently and which, if they are neglected, will breed the greatest threats to its security. It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.