"But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think."
William Pfaff was an American author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
"The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with."
William Pfaff"We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth."
William Pfaff"The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer."
William Pfaff"The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years."
William Pfaff"These choices by small countries are vital for them, but may be more momentous than commonly understood for others as well, including the major powers, who presumptuously believe they are in control of events."
William Pfaff"Foreign policy deals across time as well as space."
William Pfaff