Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & academic
Conversations with Jean Piaget (1980) by Jean Claude Bringuier
collective-evolution.com http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/09/13/russian-prime-minister-confirms-the-existence-of-intelligent-extraterrestrial-life/
Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & academic
Conversations with Jean Piaget (1980) by Jean Claude Bringuier
Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister
Answering the question of Dutch TV station "Nederland 1" and Dutch newspaper "NRC Handelsblad", "Can you imagine a situation in which you would decide to remain in office for a third term?", Putin said: http://web.archive.org/web/20061013003243/http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2005/10/31/1955_type82914type82916_96455.shtml <br class="br">2006- 2010
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979) British statesman and naval officer
Speech in Strasbourg, 11 May 1979.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Source: 2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
Amir Taheri (1942) Iranian journalist
"How to con the West" http://nypost.com/2013/08/12/how-to-con-the-west/, New York Post (August 13, 2013). <br class="br">New York Post
“I heard your suitcase say goodbye”
Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician
Music, New Jersey (1988)
Peter Jennings (1938–2005) News anchor
Attributed as an on-air remark (11 September 2001), but fabricated by Lt. Gen. Billy M. Thomas (ret). Discussed and later denied by radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Misattributed
“The most interesting thing I learned during this time was how small a nuclear warhead was.”
Robert B. Laughlin (1950) American physicist
On his experiences in the military during his training on how to fire Pershing missiles.
Nobel Prize autobiography (1998)
Context: Oklahoma is laid back and rather beautiful, with rolling brown hills not unlike the ones in California. The Pershing missiles, on the other hand, were not beautiful. They were horrible weapons of war — solid-fuel rockets five feet in diameter at the base, long as a moving van, and capable of throwing a tactical nuclear warhead 500 miles. They were launched from trucks and required a team of 10 men to service and fire. The most interesting thing I learned during this time was how small a nuclear warhead was. The nose cone of a Pershing is only about 18 inches in diameter at the base. I had not been interested at all in nuclear weaponry as a student, and so I had never thought through carefully about their "efficiency". It is sobering thought that these missiles were actually deployed in continental Europe in those days and that on at least one occasion, namely the 1973 Arab-Israel war, there was an alert serious enough to leave the commanding officers trembling.