Quotes About Stephen Kinzer

Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.

My general view is the delivery of news is changing in dramatic ways, and will continue to change into ways we can't even predict.

Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities.

Whatever doubts the Americans had about the wisdom of embracing Zia were overwhelmed by their determination to intensify the rebellion in Afghanistan.

It would be a shame if the public uproar forced us to go beyond, and to damage the integrity of the CIA," Ford said. "I automatically assume what you did was right unless it's proven otherwise." That amounted to an assurance that, if at all possible, Helms would be shielded from accountability for the CIA's actions on his watch.

siblings ran the overt and covert arms of foreign policy.

To resort to this action confesses the bankruptcy of our political policy vis-à-vis that country

The image of CIA men traipsing through Mexican villages in search of a fungus that would help them defeat Communism seems outlandish in retrospect. Gottlieb, however, saw the "magic mushroom" the same way he saw LSD and every other substance he was investigating. All were potential weapons of covert war.

No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.

In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.