Essential Quote by George Packer

Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That…

— Jennifer Donnelly

Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

— Nancy Pelosi

There's no prospect that the Russians are going to send Snowden back. Snowden is in the land of spy swaps now. Putin is not…

— Fiona Hill

If we build our military up to Ronald Reagan levels, [Vladimir] Putin's not going to push us anywhere because he can't match us.

— Rudy Giuliani

Putin is going to be considering the United States his number one enemy no matter who our president is - and no matter who's…

— Rush Limbaugh

Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.

— Ron Johnson

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government…

— Walter Bagehot

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in…

— Walter Savage Landor

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were…

— Carlos Fuentes

It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the…

— Alexander Hamilton

The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions…

— Elliott Abrams

Some countries have a parliamentary republic, some are presidential republics and some are still monarchies, but no one sees them as not being democratic.…

— Vladimir Putin