It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.
William PfaffBut Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.
William PfaffThe center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
William Pfaff