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• Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy
  and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship....
• Your America is doing many things in the economic field which we found out caused us so much trouble.
  You are trying to control people's lives. And no country can do that part way....
• AND NOW A WORD FROM THE PENTAGON To all those sissy wimps who don't want a war - remember what we're talking about here!
  What about all the oil we won't be able to pollute the atmosphere with if we don't liberate Kuwait?...
• However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
  There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs....
• I could accept this openness, glasnost, perestroika, or whatever you want to call it if they did these thing
  abolish the one party system; open the Soviet frontier and allow Soviet people to travel freely...
• One useless man can be called a disgrace. Two really useless men can be called a law firm.
  When you get more than these together, you have all the essential ingredients for a committee....
• If you really want to do something new, the good won't help you with it.
  Let me have men about me that are arrant knaves. The wicked, who have something on their conscience, are obliging, quick to hear threats, because they know how it's done, and for booty....
• Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
  -- Franklin P. Adam...