Otto von Bismarck

I’m sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

I may find Saddam Hussein’s regime abhorrent – any normal person would – but the survival of it is in his hands.

Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state – a new idea, this – even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

President Obama hasn’t been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

One could see that what you are writing was that today’s meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

I do have a relationship [with Putin] and I can tell you he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today