George Friedman Quotes

George Friedman is a Hungarian-born U.S. geopolitical forecaster, and strategist on international affairs. He is the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, an online publication that analyzes and forecasts the course of global events. Prior to founding Geopolitical Futures, he was chairman of Stratfor, the private intelligence publishing and consulting firm he founded in 1996. Friedman resigned from Stratfor in May 2015.



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✵ 1. February 1949  •  Other names Ջորջ Ֆրիդման
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Famous George Friedman Quotes

George Friedman Quotes about the world

“The United States Navy controls all of the oceans of the world.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 17

“[T]he twenty-first century truly began on September 11, 2001, ten years later, when planes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 18

“Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 22

George Friedman Quotes

“The twenty-first century will be the American century”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 18
Context: The twenty-first century will be the American century.

“This has always been the strength of the United States”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), pp. 224–225
Context: In the United States, minority populations were never an indigestible mass—with the major exceptions of the one ethnic group that did not come here voluntarily (African Americans) and those who were here when Europeans arrived (American Indians). The rest all came, clustered and dispersed, and added new cultural layers to the general society. This has always been the strength of the United States. In much of Europe, for example, Muslims have retained religious and national identities distinct from the general population, and the general population has given them little encouragement to blend. The strength of their own culture has therefore been overwhelming.

“The twenty-first century has begun with an American success”

George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 18
Context: The twenty-first century has begun with an American success that on the surface looks like not only a deafeat but a deep political and moral embarrassment.

“Europe has always been a bloody place.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next Decade: Where We've Been ... And Where We're Going (2010), p. 143

“Contemporary Europe is a search for an exit from hell.”

George Friedman

Source: The Next Decade: Where We've Been ... And Where We're Going (2010), p. 142

“I need caffeine. I need sugar. I need beef.”

George Friedman

Interview with Matt Bai (2003)

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