Quotes by Stephen Kinzer

About Stephen Kinzer:

Stephen Kinzer is a United States author, journalist and academic. A former newspaper reporter, the veteran New York Times correspondent has filed stories from more than fifty countries on five continents, as well as published several books.
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The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change.

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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.

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The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

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Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when did he change, and why? Looking back, does he believe he might have chosen a better course?

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Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington.

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Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.

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No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

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More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and the rain god, only vaguely concerned with the political entity known as Guatemal...

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Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.

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Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world event...

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No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

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One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.

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The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.

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To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It's great not to be the only member any more!

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Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.

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Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

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A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel.

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Countries that control water are likely to be the big winners of the future.

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Not all eagles can be trained, but those who take to life with a master display intense loyalty. Although they are not tethered, they always return after killing their prey.

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The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are caught when very young - either snatched from a nest or trapped in a baited net.

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Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution ag...

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Author Bio

  • NameStephen Kinzer
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist and writer
  • BornAugust 4, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer; Historian
  • AwardsMaria Moors Cabot Prizes