Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.”
Quoted in "A Special Mission" - Page 9 - by Dan Kurzman - Political Science - 2007
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Ray Nagin (1956) politician, businessman
Speech at a Martin Luther King memorial service http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/17/nagin.city/ <br class="br">2006
“You are only a puppet. But you don't realize that you are.”
Stanisław Lem book Solaris
Source: Solaris (1961), Ch. 9: "The Liquid Oxygen", p. 134
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”
Augustus (-63–14 BC) founder of Julio-Claudian dynasty and first emperor of the Roman Empire
Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi.
Quoted in Svetonius, Lives of the Cesars, Aug., XXVIII, 3
Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister
On the Ukrainian army's siege of pro-Russian rebel strongholds in Donetsk and Luhansk, 29 August 2014, http://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-lashes-out-at-ukraine-over-failure-of-talks-1409312151, The Wall Street Journal <br class="br">On Ukraine
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) New York State Senator
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 11, Tammany Leaders Not Bookworms
Patch Adams (1945) Physician, activist, diplomat, author
As quoted in "Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams" in Roda Viva - Entrevista (13 November 2007)
“With puppets, I don't think you should try to duplicate what humans do. It can cause problems.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer
Interview with Associated Press (1984)
Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995) Member of the United States Senate from Maine
Source: Declaration of Conscience (1950)
Context: I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory.
I don't want to see the Republican party win that way. While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican Party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people.
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
Address at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida (16 December 1971); published in Gerald R. Ford, Selected Speeches (1973) edited by Michael V. Doyle
1970s