Robert D. Kaplan Quotes

"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."
- Robert D. Kaplan
(Related: History, Knowledge, Countries, Problems)

"What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen."
- Robert D. Kaplan

"It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism."
- Robert D. Kaplan
(Related: Development, Causes, Poverty, 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."
- Robert D. Kaplan
(Related: Now, Rome, states, United)