20th-century Statesman Quotes

Josip Broz Tito

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Mahmoud Abbas

Anastas Mikoyan

Dean Acheson

Robert Gates

Ye Jianying

I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves of the German and Italian financial oligarchy as they never wanted to become reconciled to the semi-colonial dependence imposed on them by the so-called Western democracies after the first imperialist war.

Josip Broz Tito

As a military man who has given half a century of active Service, I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils because of the illusions which they have generated. There are powerful voices around the world who still give evidence to the old Roman precept—if you desire peace, prepare for war. This is absolute nuclear nonsense.

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

Anastas Mikoyan

I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

I think Scowcroft has done us all a great favor by his article saying don't do it. My own personal view is that basically General Scowcroft is correct. Unless the president can make a very compelling case that Saddam Hussein has his finger on a weapon of mass destruction and is about ready to use it, I do not think that now is the time to go to war against Saddam Hussein.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Cadres should be capable of climbing upward and going downward, advancing and retreating, serving as officials and acting as ordinary citizens.