William Pfaff Quotes

American journalist (1928–2015)

William Pfaff (December 29, 1928 – April 30, 2015) was an American author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and is of German, English, and Irish origin. He currently resides in Paris.

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A great nation's foreign policy involves power, money, trade, oil and arms, but it proeeds from ideas.

These choices by small countries are vital for them, but may be more momentous than commonly understood for others as well, including the major powers, who presumptuously believe they are in control of events.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.