Lawrence Kaplan Quotes & Sayings

The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say. — Lawrence Kaplan

All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free. — Lawrence Kaplan

I don't want to sound pompous, but I think it is important that when one makes arguments of consequence that he go and see what those consequences are. Having championed the war, I wanted to see the products of my own argument. — Lawrence Kaplan

Iraqis don't trust one another, parties and ministries are run by sects and not by functionaries. — Lawrence Kaplan