Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion. - William Pfaff

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

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.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.