Actually an exchange between journalist Talcott Williams and Sen. Boies Penrose (1919)
What is Americanism?
Damn if I know, but it's going to be a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Misattributed
“I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Statement to British envoy William Tyrrell explaining his policy on Mexico (November 1913)
1910s
Carlos Menem (1930) Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999
"A los que vienen hablando de que me voy a bajar de la candidatura, yo les digo: Ni lo piensen, no saben de la fibra de la que está hecho uno"
Said one day before getting off the presidential elections on May 13th, 2003
“You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.”
Raymond Chandler book The Long Goodbye
Source: The Long Goodbye
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
The Pittsburgh Press (3 August 1986) "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate" by Marie Colvin (UPI)
Pat Condell (1949) Stand-up comedian, writer, and Internet personality
"The arrogance of clergy" (2 October 2009) http://youtube.com/watch?v=STlYN5KCiWg&feature=sub <br class="br">2009
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960) Former Prime Minister of Spain
Meeting on the 14th August 2007 in Jerez, predicting another PSOE victory in the 2008 elections. <br class="br">Source: ABC http://www.abc.es/20070815/nacional-politica/zapatero-advierte-sera-firme_200708150245.html <br class="br">As President, 2007
“I write what I believe in and don't care a damn about the consequences.”
Khushwant Singh (1915–2014) Indian novelist and journalist
I Don't Know One Editor In India Who Is Well-Read
