20th-century Government Official Quotes

Régis Debray

Michael T. Flynn

George Stephanopoulos

Paul Nitze

Ron Brown (U.S. politician)

John Lehman

Donald Berwick

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

I'd like to say we have fixed these problems, but we haven't. We have very real vulnerabilities. We have not diminished in any way the fervor and ideology of our enemy..... Today, probably 50 or more states have schools that are teaching jihad, preaching, recruiting, and training. We have absolutely no successful programs even begun to remediate against those efforts..... Nobody paid attention. Presidents in four administrations put their arms around Saudi ambassadors, ignored the Wahhabi jihadism, and said these are our eternal friends.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

The darkest spot in modern society is a luminous screen.

The U.S. media is doing a bang-up job of reporting the Erdoğan government's crackdown on dissidents, but it's not putting it into perspective.

Michael T. Flynn

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

George Stephanopoulos

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Indeed, free trade can be described as democracy in the marketplace. And just as we have pushed forward on many fronts to nurture and encourage democracy around the world, so we must work to expand economic freedom. We must not settle for an uneven playing field: free trade for some, protection for others.

Ron Brown (U.S. politician)