New World Order: QUOTES from the Notorious, Infamous and Politically Relevant

by Arian Michel

The power and importance of original quotes cannot be stressed enough. It is most revealing and undeniable, especially to the incredulous, to let Presidents, Prime Ministers and military leaders speak for themselves. If enough people in power say much the same thing, you can be sure that there is a policy in there somewhere.

Through tutoring, speaking, articles, debates and general argument, I have always found that original quoted statements have the most powerful impact; far more than any dialogue from me or any journalist or academic could ever have; and were an integral part of my political education.

Some of these quotes are chosen not necessarily because of who said them but how true and educating they are. Although some of the quotes may be dated, the ideology of capitalism remains more inhuman, predatory, warlike, not only murderous but more genocidal every day.

Many of these quotes are not widely known, some not at all. So spread them as widely as possible so that many more people can know what really goes on in this troubled world in our name.

Whose New World Order?

The Nazis Planned a Thousand Year Reich. The US Plans a One World Government; a New World Order with its Project for the New American Century. This is nothing to do with New World Order or Illuminati secret conspiracy theorists. Capitalists do not need to conspiracies. They just follow the natural and obvious dynamics of capitalist socio-economics and its resultant policies. Its policies affect working people everywhere.

It is about capitalism’s myth that we have democracy when we have none. It is about economic, political and military domination of the world. Its policies are wars for profit. The military industry initiates wars in order to keep forcing the world to buy arms against enemies created by the military industry. Working people have no use for wars against each other.

“We are at present working discreetly with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world.”

(British Professor Arnold Toynbee, June l931, Institute for the Study of International Affairs.)

“The US is leader of the free world, and under this administration is beginning to act like it. If the Europeans don’t like it, that’s too bad, it’s too late to do anything about it now.”

(US Vice President Bush, August 16 1982.)

“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.”

(US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbot, July 20 l992.)

“The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down … run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”

(Richard Gardner, US Council on Foreign Relations Journal Foreign Affairs, April 1974.)

“America must prevent other states from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order… We must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.”

(US Pentagon Defense Planning Guide for 1994-1999.)

“The dirty little secret is that both houses of congress are irrelevant. America’s domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. America’s foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund. When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.”

(US Secretary of Labour Robert Reich, January 7 1999.)

“[We need to] fight and win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars. … While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.”

(From the US Project for the New American Century, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for A New Century.”)

“Whenever the Western powers are determined to get a given vote through either the [UN] Security Council … or the General Assembly … governments are warned. If they do not behave they will not get debt relief, World Bank capital projects, easier IMF [International Monetary fund] adjustment conditionalities or urgently needed hard currency IMF credit to pay oil bills. Reduction or cut-off in bilateral aid is an additional threat.”

(Erskine Childers, adviser to UN Secretary General.)

“There seems to be nothing to prevent the transnational corporations taking possession of the planet and subjecting humanity to the dictatorship of capital…. In order to crush any thought of organized resistance to the supporters of the new world order, tremendous police and military forces are being used to establish a doctrine of repression…”

(French newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique (Diplomatic World), May 1999.)

“The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.”

(US Vice President Dick Cheney, June 2002

“We’re going to fight in space, we’re going to fight from space and we’re going to fight into space… We’ll expand into these two missions – space control and space force application – because they will become increasingly important. We will engage terrestrial targets someday – ships, airplanes, land targets – from space. We will engage targets in space from space.”

(Commander in Chief of US Space Command General Joseph Ashy, August 1993. US and British space operations conceal vast amounts of secret military purposes.)

“Space represents a fundamentally new and better way to apply military force.”

(US Strategic Command.)

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”

(US billionaire David Rockefeller, to UN Business Conference, 1991.)

“Somebody has to take governments’ place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.”

(US billionaire David Rockefeller, Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999.)

“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

(US billionaire David Rockefeller, in his Memoirs.)

“How can they have the arrogance to dictate to us where we should go or which countries should be our friends? Gadhafi is my friend. He supported us when we were alone and when those who tried to prevent my visit here today were our enemies. They have no morals. We cannot accept that a state assumes the role of the world’s policeman.”

(Nelson Mandela, 1997.)

“If you live life long enough, eventually, you get hit by its schrapnel”

(Johnny Punish, writer, musician, artist 1998)

“We must build and maintain our defenses beyond challenge… Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing or equalling the power of the United States… America will act against such emerging threats before they are fully formed. … We must deter and defend against the threat before it is unleashed. … We cannot let our enemies strike first. … To forestall or prevent such hostile acts by our adversaries, the United States will, if necessary, act pre-emptively.”

(US National Security Strategy document, September 2002.)

“To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.”

(US President Barack Obama, Agense France Presse, December 1 2008.)

“Governments are corporations and corporations have no souls… Commercial and industrial predominance forces a nation to seek markets, and where possible to control them to its own advantage by prepondering force, the ultimate expression of which is possession… An inevitable link in a chain of logical sequences: industry, markets, control, navy bases.”

(US naval historian Alfred Mahan.)

“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds’ central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.”

(US Professor Carroll Quigley, Georgetown University, 1966.)

“In the wake of 9/11, almost everything we proposed prior to 9/11 is being done.”

(Special advisor to George Bush Richard Clarke. June 2002.)

“I hope history will record that the Gulf crisis was the crucible of the New World Order.”

(George Bush, August 1991 National Security Strategy of the United States.)

“The fact is that the Western hemisphere is the sphere of influence of the United States.”

(US CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence Robert Gates, 1984.)

“…deter any challenger from ever dreaming of challenging us on the world stage. I want to be the bully on the block. … there is no future in trying to challenge the armed forces of the United States.”

(US National Security Advisor Colin Powell to US House Armed Services Committee, 1992.)

“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe had grown to appalling dimensions.”

(Martinique born philosopher and author Frantz Fanon.)

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

(Martin Luther King.)

“If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.”

(Cuban leader 1959-2008 Fidel Castro.)

“While the United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.”

(British playwright Harold Pinter.)

“The greatest crime since World War II has been US foreign policy.”

(US lawyer William Ramsey Clark.)

“It isn’t only Gestapo maniacs who do inhuman things to people. We [N.Americans] are responsible for doing inhuman things on a massive scale to people all over the world.”

(Former CIA official John Stockwell.)

“Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.”

(US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.)

“US global power projection rests upon a co-operative Caribbean and a supportive South America. The exclusion of Old World maritime powers [European colonialists and imperialists such as Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, Netherlands, Belgium] from Cuba, the Caribbean and Latin America has helped the United States generate sufficient surplus power for balancing activities on European, Asian and African continents… Latin America, like Western Europe and Japan, is part of America’s power base. Any United States power base, be it in Latin America, Western Europe or the Western Pacific, cannot be allowed to crumble if the United States is to retain adequate extra energy to be able to play a balancing role elsewhere in the world. For a balancing state like the United States, there is no possibility of flexible global action if its power is immobilised or checked in any one area.”

(US Santa Fe Document, Inter American Security, 1980. This continues the Monroe Doctrine, which includes the whole American continent and the Caribbean in a US empire.)

“Over two-thirds of the globe, along the great area stretching from Europe to Japan, no treaty can be signed, no alliance can be forged, no decision can be made without the approval and support of the United States Government.”

(The Times, August 29 1951.)

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

(US National Security chief Zbigniew Brzezinski.)

“The US has about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task is to devise a pattern of relationship which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so we’ll have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming… We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about such vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratisation. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”

(US foreign policy planner George Kennan, in a secret State Department memo, February 1948.)

“The United States will in fact have no other choice but to establish a world order it is able to live with, a world where there is relatively free access to the world’s resources.”

(US Wall Street Journal, Nov 26 1979.)

“It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed orjective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. There are no rules to such a game. Hitherto accepted norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long standing American concepts of “fair play” must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.”

(US General Doolittle, in a secret 1954 report to President Eisenhower why CIA covert operations were needed and what they entailed.)

“You know, there was a time when our national security was based on a standing army here within our own borders and shore batteries of artillery along our coasts… The world has changed. Today, our national security can be threatened in far away places. It is up to all of us to be aware of the strategic importance of such places and to be able to identify them… …all are vital to us and if it went to world powers hostile to the free world, there would be a direct threat to the United States and to our allies.”

(Ronald Reagan, in a Television Address, Oct 27 1983.)

“The failure of the United Nations – My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. … It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. … The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.”

(United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali. [It has long been known that the US pressurises other nations to do its bidding and vote the US way in the UN.])

“A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.”

(UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.)

“When large scale or high risk operations are contemplated and American engagement is necessary, we will be unlikely to accept UN leadership. Rather we will ordinarily rely on our own resources or those of a regional alliance – such as NATO – or an appropriate coalition – such as that assembled during Operation Desert Storm.”

(US Ambassador to the UN and Secretary of State Czech born Madeleine Albright,

“At the old Inter-American Office in the Commerce Building here in Roosevelt’s time, as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs under President Truman, as chief whip with Adlai Stevenson and Tom Finletter at the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco, Nelson Rockefeller was in the forefront of the struggle to establish not only an American system of political and economic security but a new world order.”

(New York Times November 1975.)

“For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country, the United States. But, he didn’t. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured for him in advance by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. … The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.”The depression was the calculated ‘shearing’ of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market… The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.”

(US President Roosevelt’s son-in-law Curtis Dall, My Exploited Father-in-Law.)

“The Department of State desired that the United Nations prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.”

(US ambassador to the UN, Senator Daniel Moynihan.)

“The planning of UN can be traced to the ‘secret steering committee’ established by Secretary [of State Cordell] Hull in January 1943. All of the members of this secret committee, with the exception of Hull, … were members of the Council on Foreign Relations. They saw Hull regularly to plan, select, and guide the labors of the [State] Department’s Advisory Committee. It was, in effect, the coordinating agency for all the State Department’s postwar planning.”

(Professors Laurence Shoup and William Minter, on US Foreign Policy. 1977).

“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.”

(Brock Adams, Director of UN Health Organization.)

“There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is an international community that can be led by the only real power left in the world, and that is the US, when it suits our interests and when we can get others to go along …”

(US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton.)

“One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that’s come before them, where we’re involved, and it didn’t upset my breakfast at all.”

(US President Reagan, when the UN voted overwhelming against the US invasion of Grenada in 1983; New York Times November 4 1983.)

“We are not going to achieve a New World Order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.”

(The CFR [US Council on Foreign Relations] Journal Foreign Affairs, August 1975.)

“The central concern of the foreign policy of the United States must be the creation of a world order which is oriented to the broadest possible extent towards our national interests as a free, democratic and capitalist great power.”

(US Wall Street Journal.)

“We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest.”

(US banker, financial advisor to President Roosevelt, and Council on Foreign Relations member, James Warburg to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, February 17 l950, as testified at the US Senate.)

“The statement went on to say that the spiritual teachings of religion must become the foundation for the new world order and that national sovereignty must be subordinate to the higher moral law of God.”

(American Institute of Judaism, New York Times, December 1942.)

“Neutrality has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.”

(US Secretary of State John Dulles, 1956.)

“The case for government by elites is irrefutable”

(US Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, William Fulbright, 1963.)

“The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a new world order.”

(US President Richard Nixon, Foreign Affairs October 1967.)

“My country’s history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.”

(Henry Kissinger, to the General Assembly of the United Nations, October 1975.)

“This is a moment to seize. The kaleidoscope has been shaken, the pieces are in flux, soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.”

(Tony Blair, Tuesday, 2 October, 2001. Now also a multi-millionaire.)

“International order is created by force, preserved by force and backed by the threat of force. …questions about whether it is legal or not seem, at this stage in world history, at least, merely pedantic.”

(Tony Blair’s diplomatic representative Robert Cooper, New Statesman, September 9 2002.)

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

(English Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.)

“The world can therefore seize the opportunity [Persian Gulf crisis] to fulfil the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind.”

(US President George H. W. Bush.)

“Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.”

(Edward Abbey. [Neoconservatives, like neoliberals, are hard line right wing capitalists.])

“…an American Empire which will be… capable of exercising decisive world control… It must be granted that the United States cannot within the allotted time win the leadership of a viable world political order merely by appeals to rational conviction. Power must be there, with the known readiness to use it, whether in the indirect form of paralysing economic sanctions, or in the direct explosion of bombs. As the ultimate reserve in the power series there would be monopoly control of atomic weapons. ‘Independence’ and ‘freedom’ are after all abstractions.”

(US political theorist James Burnham, Life magazine 1947.)

“We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3 of its population… We cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships, which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction… We should cease to talk about vague unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”

(US Ambassador in Moscow George Kennan, secret State Department memo, February 1948.)

“The peace of the Atlantic powers, especially the United States seek to impose, is one in which their domination is unquestionably recognised everywhere. To secure such a peace, they wish to build up overwhelming forces of destructive armaments and then use them where and when they find their dominance threatened. To them, those who want peace by negotiation are their worst enemy. They cannot admit the possibility that two social systems can coexist.”

(Professor John (J.D.) Bernal, leader of the British delegation to the Warsaw Peace Congress, 1950.)

“As human rights conditions deteriorate … military dictatorships tend to improve the investment climate… The multinational corporate community and the U.S. government are very sensitive to this factor. Military dictators enter into a tacit joint venture arrangement with Free World leaders: They will keep the masses quiet, maintain an open door to multinational investment, and provide bases and otherwise serve as loyal clients. In exchange, they will be aided and protected against their own people, and allowed to loot public property.”

(US media and foreign policy critic Edward Herman.)

“To say that we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair.”

(British MP Denis Healy, former British Secretary of Defense.)

“Retribution will be ours unless we put the world in order.”

(US President Ronald Reagan.)

“There are two reasons for the decline in living standards, both tied to the push for a one world government. Before national barriers may be brought down between two economies the economies have to be made equal, and since it is easier to pull the top down than the bottom up, the prosperity and standard of living our parents and grandparents worked hard to create must be destroyed. Finally, history has shown that all opposition to entrenched oligarchy arises from the middle classes, who have the surplus of funds needed to challenge the ruling classes. … The New World Order will have to, indeed already is, following the same model. If the general population only has enough to pay for the next day’s rent and food, they will do as they are told.”

(Michael Rivero.)

“At one time, many AID [Agency for International Development] field officers were infiltrated from top to bottom with CIA people. … The idea was to plant operatives in every kind of activity we had overseas, government, volunteer, religious, every kind.”

(Director of US AID and advisor to President Carter John Gilligan.)

“The purpose of MAI [Multilateral Agreement on Investment] type agreements is to remove virtually all barriers to investment … So while the MAI, and now its clones, would threaten nearly every public sector of national economies such as health care, education, and culture, government spending for the military weapons development and production, and direct support for weapons corporations are excluded from the liberalizing demands of such an agreement. NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] mechanisms, as well as the WTO [World Trade Organisation] , IMF [International Monetary Fund} , and World Bank are totally undemocratic, with no access by the people. They are run by the nations with the greatest wealth, the U.S. in the first place with the corporations and banks pulling the strings… So it is clear that the new world order of the free market promises further erosion of the U.N., more wars, destruction of sovereignty, elimination of social programs for the people, increasing poverty and joblessness, and the demise of democracy.”

(Karen Talbot, Covert Action Quarterly, 1999. The above organisations, as are most such organisations, dominated or controlled by the wealthy in the capitalist world, especially the US.)

“If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realization that the New World Order, means we are all to be managed and not represented.”

(British MP Tony Benn.)

“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. … we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands… It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production… to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.”

(Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto. [Note: Bourgeois: a French term for capitalists, adopted by Classical Economics, Political Economy, Marxism etc.])

“The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skilful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation states involved. As managers and creators of the system, they will rule the future.”

(US Senator Barry Goldwater.)

“The descendants of those who crucified Christ… have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.”

(Venezuelan socialist President Hugo Chavez.)

“Geographically, our territory extends to the Aleutians, Hawaii and Guam in the middle of the Pacific Ocean… We are a global power with global tasks. We have to be prepared to fulfil the tasks facing us in Asia in the same ways as we are prepared to fulfil them elsewhere.”

(Former US Defence Secretary Harold Brown.)

“The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.”

(US Council on Foreign Relations writer and newspaper columnist Walter Lippmann.)

“To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.”

(US political economist, social scientist and author Michael Parenti.)

“Leadership towards a new system of international relationships in trade and other economic affairs will devolve very largely upon the United States because of our great economic strength. We should assume this leadership, and the responsibility that goes with it, primarily for reasons of pure national self interest.”

(US Secretary of State Cordell Hull.)

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

(US billionaire Warren Buffett.)

“The United States, as an island nation heavily dependent on overseas raw materials, must continue its forward deployment of forces in Asia and the Pacific region. There is no cheaper way to American security.”

(US Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci.)

“The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault.”

(US Major Ralph Peters.)

“Never before in history has one nation had more power over more people in more spheres of life than does the United States.”

(Nicaraguan Permanent Representative to United Nations Alejandro Bendana.)

“I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare, the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world.”

(British playwright Harold Pinter)

“Both our interests and our ideals propel us westward across the Pacific.”

(US President Nixon.)