
Source: John McDonnell criticises EU vote campaign 'negativity' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36310486 BBC News (17 May 2016)
Vajpayee interviewed by Erich Follath and Tiziano Terzani: “Guru der Nationen”, Der Spiegel, 1996/19, p. 163. quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2001). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p.168
Context: We, the Indians, as Guru of the Nations: yes, I believe in that. We can be—or once more become— the hope of mankind. But that requires efforts and courage to be ourselves culturally. Unfortunately, we live in an age of political dwarfs, political managers without vision or courage. But their time is running out.
Source: John McDonnell criticises EU vote campaign 'negativity' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36310486 BBC News (17 May 2016)
“Europe is an economic giant, a political dwarf, and a military worm.”
As quoted by Craig R. Whitney in WAR IN THE GULF: EUROPE; Gulf Fighting Shatters Europeans' Fragile Unity, The New York Times, January 25th, 1991. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/25/world/war-in-the-gulf-europe-gulf-fighting-shatters-europeans-fragile-unity.html?pagewanted=1
This phrase was pronounced in January 1991, a few days before the beginning of Desert Storm, while Eyskens was the Foreign Minister of Belgium.
Speech to the press (3 December 1980), quoted in The Times (4 December 1980), p. 5
Member of the European Parliament
“Vision is not political rhetoric.”
Source: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter Eleven, No the Retiring Type, p. 264
“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.”
What I Think (1956), p. 142
From Zoran Djindjic's speech at Democratic Party's Assembly, 04.10.2001.
Source: Social Theoryː Its Situation and Its Task (1987), p. 7
Source: "The New Russia" 1928, p. 25
“When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called 'rent-a-spine.”
Quoted from an interview for the television programme "The Thatcher Years - Part 2" on BBC1 The Thatcher Years 2 of 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEYPKLyug5c (13 october 1993)
Post-Prime Ministerial