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I'm as prone to 'declinism' as the next over-mortgaged middle-aged guy.

~David Ignatius

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It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus, you see students drawn from all over the world - an astonishing number these days with roots in Asia - whose chief assets are brainpower and hard work.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Any Asia Assets Astonishing Attack Campus Chief Days Drawn Fashionable Graduates Hard Hard Work Harvard Number Over Palin Roots Sarah Sarah Palin See Set Spend Students Time Treat Whose Work World You

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This is a universal human dream - that brains, not brawn, will rule - and the fact that America has the world's finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.

~David Ignatius

Topics: America Asset Brains Dream Education Fact Finest Greatest Higher Higher Education Human Institutions May National Our Rule Single Universal Will World

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It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Deciding Dilemma Era Genuine Governments How How Much Information Much Share

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CIA officers aren't idiots. They knew they were heading into deep water - legally and morally - when they signed up for the interrogation program. That's part of the agency's ethos - doing the hard jobs that other departments prudently avoid.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Agency Avoid Cia Deep Departments Doing Ethos Hard Heading Idiots Interrogation Jobs Knew Legally Morally Officers Other Part Program Signed Up Water Were

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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

Topics: Bugs Come Companies Crawling Demand Internet Private Public Real Real Security Satisfy Security Want Who Will

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In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Chaotic Contact Diplomats Even Less Need People Reach Will World

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Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Accountable American Benghazi Big Brave Crisis Dangerous Held How Know Made Mistakes Officers People Posts Should Staff Were Who Work Zone

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The surest way to empower the new terrorist gangs would be to withdraw from U.S. diplomatic missions.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Diplomatic Empower Gangs Missions New Surest Terrorist Way Withdraw Would

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Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.

~David Ignatius

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: May 26th, 1950

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