Donald Rumsfeld

Don’t automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn’t considered key aspects of the issue.

I don’t do quagmires.

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

While greatly honored internationally, Mandela remained on the US terrorist list until 2008, when at last a congressional resolution allowed him to enter the ‘land of the free’ without special dispensation.

United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.

The U.S. war-so-called war against terror has been a smashing success. There was a small group up in the tribal areas of mostly Pakistan and Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, and we have succeeded in spreading it over the whole world.

Earlier in the twentieth century some critics called fascism capitalism with the gloves off, meaning that fascism was pure capitalism without democratic rights and organizations.

Is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton?

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. … If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

If peace is wanted in the region, the Kurdish people’s right to self-determination must be accepted.- Jeremy Corbyn

Both prisons and inner-city schools target a kind of superfluous population that there’s no point educating because there’s nothing for them to do. Because we’re a civilized people, we put them in prison, rather than sending death squads out to murder them.

We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

The agents of [government] regard the wealth of their master as inexhaustible; are careless at what price they buy … at what price they sell.

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

The Senate confirmation process was contentious and emotional.

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

So the growth of corporate propaganda in the United States more or less parallels the growth of democracy, for quite straightforward reasons. It’s not any kind of secret. It is discussed very frankly and openly in business literature and academic social-science journals.