Alan Greenspan (1926) 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States
Source: 2000s, The Age of Turbulence (2008), Chapter Nineteen, "Globalization and Regulation", p. 375.
Excerpts from a speech to the Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific, 13 May 2005
Alan Greenspan (1926) 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States
Source: 2000s, The Age of Turbulence (2008), Chapter Nineteen, "Globalization and Regulation", p. 375.
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
Speech at Stockport (8 June 1973), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 669.
“Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.”
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Original French: Tout institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon et le magistrat corruptible est vicieuse.<br><br>From article 19 of the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen http://saintjust.free.fr/DDHC93.htm (21 April 1793) <br class="br">Original: XIX Tout institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon et le magistrat corruptible est vicieuse.
“Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.”
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
From article 19 of the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen http://saintjust.free.fr/DDHC93.htm (21 April 1793) <br class="br">Original: (fr) Tout institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon et le magistrat corruptible est vicieuse.
Interviewed by Ramsay Cook in Eleanor Cook's The Craft of History (1973)
“Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.”
Walter Bagehot book The English Constitution
No. I, "The Cabinet", p. 19
The English Constitution (1867)
“The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.”
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
In Quest of Democracy (1991)
“The present government is a hand stained with blood, which dips a finger in the holy water.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Book II, X
Napoleon the Little (1852)
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
Speech in Stockport (8 June 1973), quoted in The Times (9 June 1973), p. 3
1970s
Norm Coleman (1949) American politician
Commenting on a a scathing report on Kofi Annan’s oversight of the Iraq oil-for-food program. Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/sep/9/20050909-115404-7805r/?page=all (September 9, 2005).