Deals Quote by Mona Charen

Diplomats bluster and bluff, but democracies don't really have that many tools they can use to push back, effectively, against the seductive ideas of…

— Anne Applebaum

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

— Sue Townsend

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible…

— John Keegan

Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they…

— Christopher Hitchens

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for…

— Masha Gessen

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

— Thomas Sowell

Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two moral categories…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

— Robert Payne

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

— George W. Bush

I understand sociopolitical problems of the country, they bother me a lot.

— Vivek Agnihotri

Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.

— Donald Trump

Liberals have been committed to the principles of human rights, international stability, and international justice. They have also sought international solutions to those problems…

— Charles Kennedy