Quotes from William Pfaff

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.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

The accounts that history presents have to be paid.