International relations is security, it's trade relations, it's power games. It's not good-and-bad. But what I saw in Yugoslavia w...as pure evil. Not ethnic hatred--that's only like a label. I really had a feeling there that I am observing unleashed human evil ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Socialite women meet socialite men and mate and breed socialite children so that we can fund small opera companies and ballet trou...pes because there is no government subsidy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equ...als in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of ag...gression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation ...and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined wi...thout resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concer...ning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that... they cannot separately plunder a third.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »