International Herald Tribune, March 7, 2000: "2 Kohl Party Contenders Have Strong Ties to Ex-Communist Region : German Politics Opens Up to the East"
On Angela Merkel's chance for Chancellorship
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Comments regarding the Labour Leadership Election http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10303473, 13 June 2010.
Egils Levits (Latvian ECJ Judge), Quoted in “Latvijas avize”, 21 June 2004
May 31, 2008 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30149_The_First_Notes_of_Hillarys_Swan_Song&only
“Inertial pressures prevent most organizations from radically changing strategies and structures.”
Source: Organizational ecology, 1989, p. 22
“There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.”
Source: 1920s, Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
“If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.”
“And after that every single memoirist radically changed their story about what had happened.”
interview by David Cogswell, September 14, 1993 (see also: Rethinking Camelot http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/rc/rc-contents.html, Boston Review http://www.chomsky.info/letters/200312--.htm) http://www.davidcogswell.com/Political/Chomsky_Interview_93.htm.
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994
Context: The Tet Offensive in January of 1968 [... ] made the war unpopular. American corporate elites decided at that point that it just wasn't worth it, it was too costly, let's pull out. So at that time everybody became an opponent of the war because the orders from on high were that you were supposed to be opposed to it. And after that every single memoirist radically changed their story about what had happened. They all concocted this story that their hero, John F. Kennedy, was really planning to pull out of this unpopular war before he was killed and then Johnson changed it. If you look at the earlier memoirs, not a hint, I mean literally.
Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1990)
