Free the Airwaves! (2002)
“I think it was Osama bin Laden’s [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].”
Karl Rove (1950) American political consultant and policy advisor
Mount Union Theater, Ohio, April 18, 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070428010004/http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/17102685.htm
“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
Lester Bangs (1948–1982) American music critic and journalist
“Do you understand this is serious?"
"I understand you think it's serious.”
Gillian Flynn book Dark Places
Source: Dark Places
Michael Ignatieff (1947) professor at Harvard Kennedy School and former Canadian politician
New York Times magazine op-ed piece, May 2, 2004
“She seems like me — serious and policy-focused.”
Kirsten Gillibrand (1966) United States Senator from New York
Describing actress Jodi Foster and explaining she'd like Foster to play her in a TV-movie, the Saratogian, November 5, 2006
Jean-Claude Juncker (1954) Luxembourgian politician
Jean-Claude Juncker, 20 April 2011, quoted in " Eurogroup chief: 'I'm for secret, dark debates' http://euobserver.com/9/32222", EUobserver, 21 April 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2011. <br class="br">2011
“War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.”
Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician
La guerre! C’est une chose trop grave pour la confier à des militaires.
Variant translation: War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
As quoted in Soixante Anneés d'Histoire Française (1932) by Georges Suarez
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
As quoted in Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946) by John Hampden Jackson, p. 228; this has also become commonly paraphrased as: War is too important to be left to the generals.
Post-Prime Ministerial
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
On the death of Boris Yeltsin, in "Russia's former president Yeltsin dies: Kremlin" in Reuters (23 April 2007) http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL2330837320070423?src=042307_1016_TOPSTORY_boris_yeltsin_dies <br class="br">1990s
