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Giacomo Casanova
diplomacy
1725–1798
"One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful."
35 quotes
🇺🇸Peter Thiel
Business
b. 1967
"Confirm . We know what a smartphone looks like and does. It's not the fault of Tim Cook, but it's not an area where there will be any more innovation."
8 quotes
🇮🇳Manmohan Singh
Politics
1932–2024
"I am delighted to hear the popularity of Odori Maharaja among young people here. Our children were delighted to see Odori Asimo - the dancing robot!"
34 quotes

🇫🇷Jacques Delors
Politics
1925–2023
"allows democratic control and can punish abuses of power. Only federalism can guarantee respect for national character and regional variety. ... The springtime of Europe is still before us."
30 quotes

🇺🇸Janet Yellen
Economics
b. 1946
"An outstanding choice. Tough, smart and principled"
5 quotes
Leopold Kronecker
Mathematics
1823–1891
"God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man."
1 quotes
🇺🇸Robert McHenry
Politics
1827–1890
"owever closely a Wikipedia article may at some point in its life attain to reliability, it is forever open to the uninformed or semiliterate meddler."
1 quotes
🇩🇪Walther Funk
Politics
1890–1960
"Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia."
12 quotes

🇺🇸Paul Wolfowitz
Politics
b. 1943
"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not."
11 quotes
🇺🇸John Kasich
Politics
b. 1952
"You know, when people have no meaning in their lives, they begin to do things that sometimes can be totally crazy."
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Jean Kambanda
Politics
Hutu Power
b. 1955
"Guns are not only for soldiers. Every person can own a gun. If they shoot, you shoot back."
1 quotes
🇺🇸William Tecumseh Sherman
Military
1820–1891
"We do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and, if it involves the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it."
35 quotes
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🇺🇸Charles Morris
Literature
1939–2021
"O give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall !"
1 quotes

🇪🇪Andrus Ansip
Politics
b. 1956
1 quotes
🇫🇷Jacques Attali
Politics
b. 1943
"Today, music heralds ... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore."
2 quotes
🇺🇸Jesse Helms
Politics
1921–2008
"sent me to Washington to vote no against excessive Federal spending, against forced busing of little schoolchildren, and to vote no against the forces who have driven God out of the classroom."
11 quotes
🇬🇧Andrea Leadsom
Politics
b. 1963
"I do not believe that we will be a truly sovereign United Kingdom through the deal that is now proposed"
13 quotes
🇮🇹Licio Gelli
Business
1919–2015
"We had Italy in our hands. We would never have wanted to attack, but we were like a sentinel, carefully ensuring that the Communist party should never emerge."
4 quotes
🇩🇪Hjalmar Schacht
Politics
1877–1970
"The Moneyman Behind The Nazis" by Thane Peterson in Businessweek"
11 quotes
🇺🇸Jon Corzine
Politics
b. 1947
"the quintessential limousine liberal democrat, Jon Corzine."
1 quotes
🇺🇸Jeb Bush
Politics
b. 1953
"What you need to know is that who I listen to when I need advice on the Middle East is George W. Bush."
8 quotes
Muhammad Yunus
Politics
b. 1940
"International Forum Social Entrepreneurship Award: Honoring Muhammad Yunus -- video"
23 quotes
🇺🇸Marriner Stoddard Eccles
Politics
1890–1977
1 quotes
🇺🇸Steve Bannon
Business
b. 1953
"Pennsylvania, if you don't win this now, not only will you never win again — you don't deserve to win again."
19 quotes
🇺🇸Elbridge G. Spaulding
Politics
1809–1897
8 quotes
🇺🇸Chuck Hagel
Politics
b. 1946
"I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president."
8 quotes
Jules Sedney
Politics
1922–2020
"The resilience of democracy lies in its self-cleansing effect. Control and correction are the cleansing agents of democracy. Where they are lacking, democracy dies a silent death."
2 quotes
🇺🇸Alan Blinder
Economics
b. 1945
"First and foremost, Keynesian economics is a theory of aggregate demand and of the effects of aggregate demand on real output and inflation."
8 quotes
🇮🇳Raghuram Rajan
Politics
b. 1963
"Promoters do not have a divine right to stay in charge regardless of how badly they mismanage an enterprise, nor do they have the right to use the banking system to recapitalize their failed ventures."
12 quotes
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🇳🇬Ibukun Awosika
Business
b. 1962
"Sometimes you have to take a hard decision and when you take such decision, you have to stand by it. It’s not everybody who sees what you are seeing."
2 quotes

Samuel Rogers
Literature
1763–1855
"To vanish in the chinks that Time has made."
2 quotes
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🇺🇸Henry Kaufman
Economics
b. 1927
"Business Week "He's Not Just 'Dr. Doom,'" a review of Kaufman's book "On Money and Markets, A Wall Street Memoir"
18 quotes
🇺🇸Robert McNamara
Politics
1916–2009
"I must say I don't object to its being called McNamara's War. I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it."
6 quotes
🇺🇸John Lehman
Military
b. 1942
4 quotes
🇺🇦Viktor Yushchenko
Politics
b. 1954
"Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to put an end to democracy and democratic reforms in the country"
1 quotes
🇺🇸Richard Holbrooke
Politics
1941–2010
"Council on Foreign Relations: Biographical information"
22 quotes

🇬🇧Sajid Javid
Politics
b. 1969
"Young people are being murdered across the country, it can't go on."
42 quotes
🇺🇸Paul Volcker
Economics
1927–2019
6 quotes
🇺🇸Bernard Baruch
Politics
1870–1965
"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am."
15 quotes
🇬🇧Douglas Hurd
Politics
b. 1930
"European security without the United States simply doesn't make sense. We Europeans need to say loud and clear that we welcome US forces in Europe."
19 quotes