Kissinger Quote by John Pilger Download Open image “What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot completed.” — John Pilger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kissinger Pol Pot Pot
Nixon did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would be envious… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“Moreover, Kissinger and Nixon deeply distrusted each other. Kissinger was sometimes contemptuous (behind Nixon's back) of the President. He called Nixon "our drunken friend,"… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by the frenzy and paranoia of the Nixonian Vietnam policy that consensus itself was threatened. Ordinary intra-mural and extra-mural leaking, to such duly constituted bodies as Congress, was getting out of hand. It was Kissinger who inaugurated… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Nixon at one point informs Kissinger . . . that he wanted bombing of Cambodia. And Kissinger loyally transmits the order to the Pentagon… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Understanding clearly that what they were doing was illegal, Nixon and Kissinger did it anyway.” — Gary J. Bass Copy Share Image
“President Nixon and Kissinger were joined for the promotion ceremony by CIA director Richard Helms and Defense Secretary Laird; all the men were in… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Henry Kissinger spent years negotiating the terms of our surrender there and ended up with a deal that he could have gotten on the… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
Nixon was a crook, but he was our crook. He didn't have the KGB do the Watergate job. — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
“Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'official truth'. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as 'functionaires', functionaries, not journalists. Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest… — John Pilger Copy Share
Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations. — John Pilger Copy Share Image
In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East. — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton persuaded some people that he was really a civilized character and his Administration had the best interests of humanity at heart. These… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations. They… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance. — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self again. I received a call asking if I would write for it again, which I've done. It's a pleasure to be able to do that. It's become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it,… — John Pilger Copy Share
Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
The Mirror has become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In this, the richest, 'booming' state, the prisons bulge with stricken Aboriginal people, including juveniles whose mothers stand at the prison gates, pleading for their release. The incarceration of black Australians here is eight times that… — John Pilger Copy Share
Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't…out of respect for DeGaulle… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement… — Roy Hodgson Copy Share Image
Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply… — William Shawcross Copy Share Image
People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we going to… — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in that field, which lead to a situation in which his aides played a much greater roles than aides would have played under President Ford or let us say in the whole Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era. — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share
I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember it either. But this photograph is here now to prove that no amount of kindness on my part could make this photograph mean exactly what he.. or even I.. wanted it to mean. It's a… — Richard Avedon Copy Share
Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from the international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company. Nominally, Kissinger Associates (KA) is an "international consulting firm" but "consultant" covers many sins, and in KA's case, this means international political influence-peddling for its… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
Nixon at one point informs Kissinger . . . that he wanted bombing of Cambodia. And Kissinger loyally transmits the order to the Pentagon… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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