Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor
The Visitor (2002)
“Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability.”
As quoted by Ambassador Cameron R. Hume in a speech on U.S. Government Initiatives in South Africa http://pretoria.usembassy.gov/wwwhambhume020918.html at the American Chamber of Commerce, Johannesburg, South Africa (18 September 2002). <br class="br">2000s <br class="br">Context: Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.
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Yvette Cooper (1969) British politician
Response on Farage's denial for being responsible for whipping up hate against immigrants - Nigel Farage says he is a victim of poltical hatred in response to Jo Cox question http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-jo-cox-dead-murdered-peston-brexit-eu-referendum-ukip-political-hatred-a7089996.html (19 June 2016)
“One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.”
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1960, Address at Convention Hall, Philadelphia
Context: Finally, I believe in an America with a government of men devoted solely to the public interests — men of ability and dedication, free from conflict or corruption or other commitment — a responsible government that is efficient and economical, with a balanced budget over the years of the cycle, reducing its debt in prosperous times — a government willing to entrust the people with the facts that they have — not a businessman's government, with business in the saddle, as the late Secretary McKay described this administration of which he was a member — not a labor government, not a farmer's government, not a government of one section of the country or another, but a government of, for and by the people.
Vladimir Lenin book The State and Revolution
Ch. 6 http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch06.htm <br class="br">The State and Revolution (1917)
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Speech to the Los Angeles Town Club, Los Angeles, California (11 September 1952); Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952), p. 36
Context: In the tragic days of Mussolini, the trains in Italy ran on time as never before and I am told in their way, their horrible way, that the Nazi concentration-camp system in Germany was a model of horrible efficiency. The really basic thing in government is policy. Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
"Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'", The New York Times Magazine (April 25, 1971), p. 50.
“Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.”
Kenneth N. Waltz book Man, the State, and War
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter V, Some Implications Of The Second Image, p. 150
“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
As quoted in The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984) by Robert Byrne
1980s
Variant: Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
“It is bad policy to fear the resentment of an enemy.”
Ethan Allen (1738–1789) American general
Response, refusing instructions by a timid Continental Congress to move war matériel captured from the British to a place of safe keeping until it could be returned; as quoted in "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" - American Heritage magazine Vol. 14, Issue 6 (October 1963) http://www.americanheritage.com/content/%E2%80%9C-name-great-jehovah-and-continental-congress%E2%80%9D