Political quotations

"France’s ex-Commissioner Thierry Breton thinks the EU should override the German elections if the AfD does too well, citing the recent Supreme Court putsch in Romania as a good precedent." Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph, 17 January 2025

"After each wave of NATO expansion, for example, Russia became more rather than less threatening. If the purpose of NATO expansion was to make Europe more secure, the contrast between the security environment of 1992 and that of 2025 delivers a damning verdict — all the more so when contrasted with the success a more limited NATO enjoyed in checking the Soviet Union until its demise." Daniel McCarthy, "It's over: Biden is last gasp of failed post-Cold War internationalism", January 17, 2025

 "So every bomb Biden provided Israel to drop on children in Gaza was not only morally monstrous; it also made Americans less safe. It will take years for America to recuperate from the damage Biden has inflicted on our standing, our moral compass, our credibility, and on our security. America is still recovering from the sins of the Iraq invasion." Trita Parsi, "Biden worked 'tirelessly around the clock' — to prevent a ceasefire", Responsible Statecraft, 16 January 2025

"The lie about Trump was not that he is awful (he is) but that he is uniquely awful. I don't see why anything is less safe with him in charge than it was under Biden (a geriatric, corrupt, viciously dishonest imbecile) or than it would have been under Harris (a cretinously incoherent diversity hire)." Colin Cavendish-Jones

“The real menace, the disease eating away at the heart of Western society, is white ethnomasochism: hatred of one’s own type, one’s own race, one’s own ancestors, one’s own parents, one’s own fellow citizens who do not share a bizarrely unreal and idealistic view of human nature.” John Derbyshire, 'After the Atrocity In Nice', July 17, 2016

"Political blackmail is the threat of exposing, or the actual exposure, of true, but more often invented, 'stories' with the aim of causing an opponent political damage, of slandering him, of depriving him of the possibility of engaging in political activity, or of making it difficult for him." Lenin