One of the great famines in human history took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [At the same time] Western journalists were reporting ho…

- George Friedman

Italy spills over to everything. Italy is a huge banking system. It has been the major banking system in Eastern Europe. It's worked with Austria's b…

- George Friedman

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demograph…

- George Friedman

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

- George Friedman

What is the great fear of the United States? That an Eastern power will build a navy to challenge us. How do you keep them from doing that? Keep them…

- George Friedman

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term …

- George Friedman

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

- George Friedman

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can in…

- George Friedman

The United State has a net worth against which our debt is a joke ... we wrote in 2008 the United States is going to come out of this recession fast.…

- George Friedman