Michael O'Leary (businessman) (1961) businessman, CEO of Ryanair
Newsnight Interview (February 24, 2011)
2010s, (July 26, 2016)
Michael O'Leary (businessman) (1961) businessman, CEO of Ryanair
Newsnight Interview (February 24, 2011)
Stephen Harper (1959) 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
Interview with Kevin Newman, Global National April 5th, 2006.
2006
Donald Rumsfeld (1932) U.S. Secretary of Defense
Regards upcoming elections in Iraq http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1283005.htm, January 14, 2005. <br class="br">2000s
Steve Sailer (1958) American journalist and movie critic
Americans First http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/americans-first/, The American Conservative, February 13, 2006
Eric Schmidt (1955) software engineer, businessman
Charlie Rose interview, 3 Jun 2005 https://charlierose.com/videos/17574, quoted in An Old Eric Schmidt Interview Reveals Google’s End-Game For Search And Competition https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/an-old-eric-schmidt-interview-reveals-googles-end-game-for-search-and-competition/ by TechCrunch (4 Jan 2013).
“The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.”
Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
This was quoted as an anonymous saying heard in Moscow around the time of the first Russian elections, in Voltaire, Goldberg & Others : A Compendium of the Witty, the Profound and the Absurd (2000), p. 201; it was later attributed to Brezhnev in Brewer's Famous Quotations: 5000 Quotations and the Stories Behind Them (2006) by Nigel Rees, p. 441, but without citations, and it is clearly derived from a statement widely attributed to Vyacheslav Molotov as early as the 1954 Berlin Conference, according to an eyewitness writing in International Affairs Vol. 36 (1960), p. 4 : "The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to to turn out."
Misattributed
Mohamed Nasheed (1967) Maldivian politician, 4th president of the Maldives
Quoted on Haveeru, "Nasheed accuses Supreme Court of trying to 'rob' council elections" http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/53270, January 14, 2013.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Transcript of speech https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/11/donald-trump-unplugged-as-ever/ at Ambridge, Pennsylvania (October 10, 2016) <br class="br">2010s, 2016, October
“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.”
Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) Soviet politician and diplomat
Remark at the Berlin Conference (1954) according to an eyewitness writing in International Affairs Vol. 36 (1960), p. 4