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" A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation. "
David Ignatius
Change
Dialogue
America
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" Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system has rebalanced toward the basic principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy that were set forth by the Founders. "
David Ignatius
Political
Democracy
History
" Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers. "
David Ignatius
Risks
Taking Risks
True
" Donald Trump tests the limits of campaign speech. He makes false statements and refuses to correct them. He attacks other religions and ethnic groups, inflaming domestic tension and foreign terrorist rage. "
David Ignatius
Rage
Religions
Speech
" Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation. "
David Ignatius
Commander
Generation
Most
" Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do. "
David Ignatius
Fun
Drive
Crazy
" Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy. "
David Ignatius
Pretend
Spy
Talk
" When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage. "
David Ignatius
Doing
Look
Credit
" The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors. "
David Ignatius
Better
Leadership
Political
" We haven't usually had to face the extreme questions about liberty and order because we're not a nation of extremists. We love freedom and good government both. "
David Ignatius
Government
Love
Good
" Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies. "
David Ignatius
Intelligence
Abroad
Lies
" The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious. "
David Ignatius
Ideas
Bad
Free
" It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific Fleet with an aircraft carrier. "
David Ignatius
Sea
Power
Creating
" Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran. "
David Ignatius
Saudi
Iran
State
" The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions. "
David Ignatius
Gangs
Way
Terrorist
" World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation. "
David Ignatius
World
Deception
War
" Real security will come when it's a moneymaker for private companies who want to satisfy public demand for an Internet that isn't crawling with bugs. "
David Ignatius
Internet
Want
Security
" If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance. "
David Ignatius
World
Game
You
" Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works. "
David Ignatius
Way
Movies
Moments
" Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States. "
David Ignatius
Military
Syria
Success
" As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around. "
David Ignatius
World
You
Work
" Middle Eastern wars rarely end with outright victory and permanent stability, so the word 'settlement' may promise too much. At best, for many years, it may simply mean stable ceasefire lines, reduced bloodshed, fewer refugees, and less terrorism. "
David Ignatius
Victory
Too Much
Best
" 2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil and uncertainty. It was difficult for government analysts back in Washington to know just where they were on the map, let alone where they were heading. "
David Ignatius
Government
Alone
Back
" Helping Wall Street regain confidence and stability was the last thing an angry public wanted in 2009 after the markets crashed. But without such support, markets can buckle and liquidity can disappear - often for decades, as has been the case in Japan. "
David Ignatius
Street
Angry
Confidence
" The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going. "
David Ignatius
Challenge
Change
Someone
" We're grappling with the same issue facing all advanced economies - how to revive growth and distribute its fruits more fairly. An America that can tackle that problem head-on can perhaps help revive a stagnant global economy. "
David Ignatius
Help
Growth
Economy
" Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become a symbol of the yearning of America in the 1920s. "
David Ignatius
Great
History
America
" Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers. "
David Ignatius
Wish
I Wish
Money
" Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic. "
David Ignatius
Economic
Panic
Policy
" Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations. "
David Ignatius
Best
Test
People
" Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it's easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public's interest as expressed by our courts. "
David Ignatius
Easy
Problem
Company