Robert Mugabe (1924–2019) former President of Zimbabwe
Interview with Heidi Holland (December 2007)
2000s, 2005 - 2009
Sunday Times interview (1980s)
Robert Mugabe (1924–2019) former President of Zimbabwe
Interview with Heidi Holland (December 2007)
2000s, 2005 - 2009
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
Statement http://books.google.com/books?id=6swLAAAAYAAJ&q=%22What+the+country+needs+is+a+good+big+laugh%22+%22if+some+one+could+get+off+a+good+joke+every+ten+days+i+think+our+troubles+would+be+over%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage to Raymond Clapper http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/clapper-raymond.cfm (c. February 1931)
Charles Erwin Wilson (1890–1961) American secretary of Defence
The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. Our contribution to the nation is considerable.
Charles E. Wilson (1952) in: Confirmation hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, responding to Sen. Robert Hendrickson's question regarding conflicts of interest. Quoted in Safire's Political Dictionary (1978) by William Safire.
Charles Erwin Wilson (1890–1961) American secretary of Defence
Charles E. Wilson (1952) in: Confirmation hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, responding to Sen. Robert Hendrickson's question regarding conflicts of interest. Quoted in Safire's Political Dictionary (1978) by William Safire.
Siad Barre (1919–1995) Head of State of Somalia
Need to Initiate a Dialogue Siyad barre.htm "No Need to Initiate a Dialogue: London Paper Interviews President Barre" http://www.biyokulule.com/No, Al-Tadamun in Arabic (30 May 1987)
Shripad Yasso Naik (1952) Indian politician
On pub culture in Goa, as quoted in " Pub culture needs to be controlled: Tourism minister http://www.livemint.com/Politics/RfmbkAe4cjK98SuqoAshSM/Pub-culture-needs-to-be-controlled-Tourism-minister.html", Live Mint (13 July 2014)
Jimmy Hoffa (1913–1982) American labor leader
Source: Hoffa The Real Story (1975), Chapter 7, Gangsters and the "Irish Mafia", p. 119
“True patriots all; for be it understood
We left our country for our country’s good.”
Prologue written for the Opening of the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796. Compare: "'T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad", George Farquhar, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Act iii, scene 2.
“To be as good as our fathers we must be better.”
Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer
1880s, The Scholar in a Republic (1881)