Stephen Kinzer Quotes

United States, Author
August 4, 1951

Stephen Kinzer is an American author, journalist and academic. He was a New York Times correspondent, has published several books, and currently writes for several newspapers and news agencies.

Washington sees the various local and national conflicts in the Middle East as part of a battle for regional hegemony between the U.S. and Iran.

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- U.S.
- Iran
- Conflicts
New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.

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- World
- Learn
- Media

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.

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- Deals
- Leaders
- Collapse
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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At the end of the day, there is still one function of journalism that cannot be computerized, and that is reporters. You're always going to need reporters.

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Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

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The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West.

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- West
- Threats
- Crises
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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- News
- Changing
- Predict

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

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- Leader
- Approval
- Dissent
As long as Iran believes that its security will be increased by having a nuclear program, it's going to pursue its program.

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- Security
- Program
- Nuclear