“I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
New York Times (19 December 1930) remarks on Sinclair Lewis receiving the Nobel Prize
1930s
“I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could — with 100 per cent certainty — know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.”
from an unnamed Swedish radio program, quoted in Mirror.co.uk, "Blix Blasts 'Illegal' US War on Iraq", August 7, 2003 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13263825_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-BLIX-BLASTS--ILLEGAL--US-WAR-ON-IRAQ-name_page.html
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