Comment on the 1955 Geneva Summit, quoted in the CQ Weekly Report ( 1 August 1955 http://books.google.com/books?id=GN8tAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Conferences+at+the+top+level+are+always+courteous+Name+calling+is+left+to+the+foreign+ministers%22&pg=PA910#v=onepage)
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Speech "The Elections in St. Petersburg" (January 1913) http://marx2mao.com/Stalin/ESP13.html <br class="br">Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
“I wouldn't call the Prime Minister gutless. That's all that's left of him.”
David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
Referring to Sir Robert "Piggy" Muldoon.
Source: NZPD 456, 1984, p. 107.
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
The Analects, The Doctrine of the Mean
Context: What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path. On this account, the superior man does not wait till he sees things, to be cautious, nor till he hears things, to be apprehensive.
“A foreign minister who knew little of foreign affairs and nothing of foreign policy.”
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946) German general
Robert H. Jackson
Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer
Books on Religion and Christianity, Words of Christ (2002)
Original: (fr) La vie est incréée. Étranger à la création, étranger au monde, tout procès conférant la Vie est un procès de génération.
Michel Henry, Paroles du Christ, éd. du Seuil, 2002, p. 107
“Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer”
Frank Bainimarama (1954) Prime Minister of Fiji
Context: Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer: "I do not see the Military Commander of Fiji as a political player in all this. Let me make this very clear: it is not the job of a military commander to play politics; it is the job of the military commander to command troops and the Government is to decide where those troops get deployed, whether to Iraq or RAMSI. It is not the role of the commander to play domestic politics." (29 September 2005, on Bainimarama's opposition to the Reconciliation and Unity Bill (q. v).
Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist
Quote of the week #8 – Monbiot: "looks like I’ve boobed" http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/17/quote-of-the-week-8-monbiot-looks-like-ive-boobed/, wattsupwiththat.com, May 17, 2009. <br class="br">2009
S. M. Krishna (1932) Indian politician
Regarding the border issues of China and India, October 29, 2009. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/india/091028/sm-krishna-india-foreign-minister-kashmir
“All those whom history calls great
Left only empty names for us to venerate.”
Cao Xueqin book Dream of the Red Chamber
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 5
John Zachman (1934) American computer scientist
Source: Business Systems Planning and Business Information Control Study: A comparison, 1982, p. 34
