Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Labour conference in Blackpool, 2 October 2002. Perhaps echoes an old latin proverb, Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, be prepared for war).
2000s
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Crossing the Sauer: a memoir of World War II (2002)
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Labour conference in Blackpool, 2 October 2002. Perhaps echoes an old latin proverb, Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, be prepared for war).
2000s
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
As quoted in "Dark Lens on America" in The New York Times Magazine (14 January 1990)
“If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.”
Jack Nicholson (1937) American actor, film director, producer, and writer
"'I used to feel irresistible to women. Not any more': The melancholy confessions of Jack Nicholson", dailymail.co.uk, 31 January 2011.
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Passariano (26 September 1797), as quoted in Napoleon as a General (1902) by Maximilian Yorck von Wartenburg, p. 269
“I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?”
Alexander Ovechkin (1985) Russian ice hockey player
Paul Hunter (June 12, 2008) "Ovechkin fashions himself a designer", The Toronto Star, p. S02.
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
“I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.”
Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) Former dictator of the republic of Chile
November 1998, during detention in London http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20061210/pags/20061210221221.html <br class="br">1990s
“People ask about dictators, "Why?" But dictators themselves ask, "Why not?"”
Garry Kasparov (1963) former chess world champion
As quoted in "Is Putin Popular?" https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/is-putin-popular-c/ (2018), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review <br class="br">2010s