
— Friedrich Hayek Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economics laureate 1899 - 1992
1980s and later, Interview in Silver & Gold Report (1980)
Speech at the seminar " The Role of Industry in the Growth of Brazil https://www.fazenda.gov.br/divulgacao/noticias/2010/setembro/governo-nao-pretende-taxar-investimentos-estrangeiros-diz-mantega" organized by the Getulio Vargas Foundation, September 27, 2010
— Friedrich Hayek Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economics laureate 1899 - 1992
1980s and later, Interview in Silver & Gold Report (1980)
— Denis Healey British Labour Party politician and Life peer 1917 - 2015
Speech to the twelfth congress of the Confederation of Socialist Parties of the EEC in Paris (12 November 1982), quoted in The Times (13 November 1982), p. 3
1980s
— Lawrence H. Summers Former US Secretary of the Treasury 1954
Tom Braithwaite (April 9, 2009) "Summers sees end to ‘sense of free-fall’" http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f4f1ac1c-2537-11de-8a66-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1, Financial Times
2000s
— Paul Craig Roberts American economist 1939
"A Bankrupt Superpower," CounterPunch (2008-03-18)
„Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war.“
— Bernard Baruch American businessman 1870 - 1965
Speech to the South Carolina Legislature, Columbia, SC (16 April 1947); Baruch said that the phrase "cold war" was suggested to him by H. B. Swope, editor of the New York World; the term had earlier been used by George Orwell (1945)
Contesto: Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.
— James Wesley Rawles Survivalist-fiction author and blogger 1960
Origine: How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Plume, New York (2009), p. 14
— Rudiger Dornbusch German economist 1942 - 2002
Origine: Open economy macroeconomics, 1980, p. 14
— Edward Heath Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974) 1916 - 2005
Speech in the House of Commons (26 June 1991) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1991/jun/26/European-Community
Post-Prime Ministerial
— Jared Polis American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and US Representative 1975
… The government doesn't need to "treat" it [Bitcoin] at all. … The government policy should be completely agnostic about what unit of exchange is used.
Jared Polis, interviewed by Kennedy, Matt Welch, and Kmele Foster on The Independents, Fox Business (10 March 2014).
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
2010s, 2011, Q&A with Former President George W. Bush (January 2011)
Contesto: Yes. I also put in the book that I felt Hugo Chavez was the Robert Mugabe of our hemisphere. In other words, this is a case for – where leadership is destroying a country. Zimbabwe used to feed South Africa. Today it's a net importer of food because the rule of an incompetent government destroyed the economy of the country.
— Rudiger Dornbusch German economist 1942 - 2002
Euro fantasies, 1996
— Volodymyr Zelensky 6th President of Ukraine 1978
Zelensky’s speech at the UN General Assembly https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vistup-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelenskogo-na-zagalnih-57477 (25 September 2019)
— Colin Campbell Mitchell British Army officer and politician 1925 - 1996
Lt Col Colin Mitchell http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7111303.stm.
„A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today.“
— Dwight D. Eisenhower American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961) 1890 - 1969
News Conference of (11 August 1954) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=9977
Variant: When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.
Quoted in Quote magazine (4 April 1965) and The Quotable Dwight D. Eisenhower (1967) edited by Elsie Gollagher, p. 219<!-- seldom found variants: All of us have heard this term 'preventative war' since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time... I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.
A preventative war, to my mind, is an impossibility. I don't believe there is such a thing, and frankly I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.-->
1950s
Contesto: All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time, if we believe for one second that nuclear fission and fusion, that type of weapon, would be used in such a war — what is a preventive war?
I would say a preventive war, if the words mean anything, is to wage some sort of quick police action in order that you might avoid a terrific cataclysm of destruction later.
A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.
I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.
… It seems to me that when, by definition, a term is just ridiculous in itself, there is no use in going any further.
There are all sorts of reasons, moral and political and everything else, against this theory, but it is so completely unthinkable in today's conditions that I thought it is no use to go any further.
— Benjamin Creme artist, author, esotericist 1922 - 2016
The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA, (July 2010)
„All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.“
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
2009, A New Beginning (June 2009)
— Ratko Mladić Commander of the Bosnian Serb military 1943
From interview with Robert Block, 1995
Interviews (1993 – 1995)
— Christopher Hitchens British American author and journalist 1949 - 2011
"Appointment in Mesopotamia" http://www.slate.com/id/2159082/, Slate (2007-02-05): On Iraq
2000s, 2007