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Revealing Quotes from the Powerful http://www.questionwar.com/QuotesPowerful.html  The illegal we do immediatel y. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. – Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, and Secretary of State under Gerald Ford We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. -- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)  The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media. – William Colby, former CIA director  The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. – Spiro Agnew, U. S. Vice-President, 13 November 1969 If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensabl e nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future. – Madeleine K. Albright, 64th US Secretary of State and Ambassador to the United Nations What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about, if we can’t use it? – Madeleine K. Albright I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it. – Madeleine K. Albright In response to a question from Leslie Stahl, “We have heard that a half million children have died (as a result of Clinton's sanctions against Iraq). I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. ... is the price worth it?  The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in Democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. Our minds are molded, our tastes are formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. – Edward Bernays (1891-1995) "Father" of modern public relations (PR) and director of the U.S. Committee on Public Information during World War I, on government propaganda

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 The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little

longer.– Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor and Secretary of Stateunder Richard Nixon, and Secretary of State under Gerald Ford

We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everythingthe American public believes is false.-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

 The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.– William Colby, former CIA director

 The American people should be made aware of the trend towardmonopolization of the great public information vehicles and theconcentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewerand fewer hands.– Spiro Agnew, U. S. Vice-President, 13 November 1969

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are theindispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.– Madeleine K. Albright, 64th US Secretary of State and Ambassadorto the United Nations

What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talkingabout, if we can’t use it?– Madeleine K. Albright

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price isworth it.– Madeleine K. Albright In response to a question from Leslie Stahl,“We have heard that a half million children have died (as a result of Clinton's sanctions against Iraq). I mean, that is more children thandied in Hiroshima. ... is the price worth it?

 The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habitsand opinions of the masses is an important element in Democraticsociety. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of societyconstitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. Our minds are molded, our tastes are formed, our ideassuggested, largely by men we have neverheard of.– Edward Bernays (1891-1995) "Father" of modern public relations(PR) and director of the U.S. Committee on Public Information duringWorld War I, on government propaganda

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History is a set of lies agreed upon.– Napoleon Bonaparte (1768-1821)

In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards theaggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated

citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractivepersonalities effectively exploiting the latest communicationstechniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.— Zbignew Brzezinski, current advisor to Barrack Obama

 The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a morecontrolled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite,unrestrained by traditional values.– Zbigniew Brzezinsky, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to beautocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especiallyits capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populistdemocracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of poweris not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and thehuman sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers)required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts.Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.

— Zbignew Brzezinski—from The Grand Chessboard, 1997

 To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategyare to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among thevassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep thebarbarians from coming together.– Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, (1997) p.40

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over andover and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the

propaganda.– George W. Bush, 43rd US President

 There's three things to remember: claim everything, explain nothing,deny everything.– Senator Prescott Bush (Skull and Bones, 1917) The Bush familypatriarch made the above statement in a 1966 interview for ColumbiaUniversity's oral history project on the Eisenhower administration.Prescott Bush said that political dictum had been explained to him byClaire Boothe Luce, congresswoman, ambassador and wife of Time-Life media magnate Henry Luce (Skull and Bones 1920)

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 The world is divided in to three classes of people: a very small groupthat makes things happen, a somewhat larger group that watchesthings happen, and the great multitude which never knows whathappened.– Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, 1931

Nobel Peace Prize winner

 This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism,call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a greatopportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.– Al Capone

We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everythingthe American public believes is false.-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I amstrongly in favour of using gases against uncivilised tribes.--Winston S Churchill, Great Britain’s then Colonial Secretary, referringto the Kurds, in an official communication, 1921

I do not admit that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia by the fact that a strongerrace has come in and taken their place.--Winston S Churchill

 The story of the human race is war.--Winston S Churchill

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit thegovernment's ability to govern the people, we should look to limitthose guarantees.– Bill Clinton

 The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.– Bill Clinton

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinaryAmericans.– Bill Clinton, U.S.A. Today, 11 March 1993

As America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may findit more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues,except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceiveddirect external threat.-- Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Fascism is on the march today in America. Millionaires are marchingto the tune. It will come in this country unless a strong defense is set

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up by all liberal and progressive forces... A clique of U.S. industrialistsis hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democraticgovernment, and is working closely with the fascist regime inGermany and Italy. Aboard ship a prominent executive of one of America's largest financial corporations told me point blank that if the

progressive trend of the Roosevelt administration continued, he wouldbe ready to take definite action to bring fascism to America.– William Dodd, former Ambassador to Germany, 1938

A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state tosupplant our democratic government and is working closely with thefascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunityin my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American rulingfamilies are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascismoccupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there.– William E. Dodd U.S. Ambassador to Germany 1937

In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining greatmilitary establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional stateakin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an externalmenace. This involves the development to a high degree of thenation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the populationto a sense of sacrifice. Once these exist, we have gone a long way onthe path to war.- John Foster Dulles

 The Japanese were ready to surender and it wasn’t necessary to hitthem with that awful thing [atomic bomb]. . . . I hated to see ourcountry be the first to use such a weapon.– Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th President of the UnitedStates and Supreme Allied Commander

For globalism to work, America can't be afraid to act like the almightysuperpower that it is....The hidden hand of the market will never workwithout a hidden fist...McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnellDouglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps theworld safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States

Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.– Thomas Friedman, from "What the World Needs Now" in the New York Times and Illustrated by an American Flag on a fist.

It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our bankingand monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be arevolution before tomorrow morning.-- Henry Ford

 This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become socorrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any

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other.– Benjamin Franklin

Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social

responsibility other than to make as much money for theirstockholders as possible.– Milton Friedman

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.--Josph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister

 Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government canplay.--Josph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister

 The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unlessone fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it mustconfine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.--Josph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people willeventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for suchtime as the State can shield the people from the political, economicand/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally

important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, forthe truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, thetruth is the greatest enemy of the State.--Josph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shieldthe people from the political, economic and/or military consequencesof the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of thelie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." -- Dr. Joseph M. Goebbel

--Josph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister

 The threat of environmental crisis will be the 'international disasterkey' that will unlock the New World Order.-- Mikhail Gorbachev

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually theywill believe it.--Adolf Hitler

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.--Adolf Hitler

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 Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people canbe made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, toconsider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.– Adolf Hitler

It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unawarethe people around us are of what is really happening to them.– Adolf Hitler

 The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in thisworld lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which,fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its willagainst all others– Adolf Hitler

 The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, forthe vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts moreeasily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. Theprimitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to abig lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies butwould be ashamed to tell a big one.--Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf 

...in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; becausethe broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted… theymore readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie… It would

never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and theywould not believe that others could have the impudence to distort thetruth so infamously.– Adolf Hitler, Main Kampf 

 The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with aconspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.– J. Edgar Hoover

 To the extent that the United States was governed by anyone duringthe decades after World War Il, it was governed by the President

acting with the support and cooperation of key individuals and groupsin the executive office, the federal bureaucracy, Congress, and themore important businesses, banks, law firms, foundations, and media,which constitute the private sector’s ‘Establishment’.– Samuel P. Huntington, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

 Those who own the country ought to govern it.– John Jay, first chief justice of the United States, 1787

We have about half the world's wealth ...but only 5 percent of itspopulation.... In this situation ... our real job in the coming years is todevise a pattern of relationships which permit us to maintain thisposition of disparity... To do so we have to dispense with all

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sentimentality and day-dreaming, ... concentrate everywhere on ourimmediate national objectives...[and] deal in straight power concepts. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.George Kenan [Department of State Policy Planning Study No. 23,1948].

In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the ideathat pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famineand the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused byhuman intervention and it is only through changed attitudes andbehaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, ishumanity itself."– Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - founder and secretary,respectively, of the Club of Rome - The First Global Revolution,pp.104-105

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.– Henry Kissinger, 56th U.S. Secretary of State and 1973 Nobel Prize-Winner for Peace

 The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a littlelonger.– Henry Kissinger

Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns inforeign policy.

– Henry Kissinger

 Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered LosAngeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This isespecially true if they were told there was an outside threat frombeyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our veryexistence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with worldleaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fearsis the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rightswill be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well beinggranted to them by their world government.

– Henry Kissinger

What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people thatreject the international system...– Henry Kissinger

covert action should not be confused with missionary work– Henry Kissinger, about the CIA's betrayal of Iraqi Kurds,

[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, aswe are the mostsignificant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order,and it will force the United

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Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth,then you're stupid. Did you hear that? - stupid.– Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs,1965

We are on the verge of global transformation. All we need is the rightmajor crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.– David Rockefeller (Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank)

Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviouslysucceeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicatedadministration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao'sleadership is one of the most important and successful in humanhistory.– David Rockefeller

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Timemagazine and other great publications whose directors have attendedour meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almostforty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our planfor the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicityduring those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated andprepared to march towards a world-government. The supranationalsovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surelypreferable to the National autodetermination practiced in past

centuries.-- David Rockefeller in an address to a Trilateral Commission meetingin June of 1991

For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of thepolitical spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such asmy encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for theinordinate influence they claim we wield over American political andeconomic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secretcabal 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 integratedglobal political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If thatis the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.-- David Rockefeller - From Rockefeller's "Memoirs"

No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war. . . . In strictconfidence . . . I should welcome almost any war, for I think thiscountry needs one.– Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th U.S. President, U.S. VicePresident, 1906 Nobel Prize-Winner for Peace

Of course, our whole national history has been one of expansion. . . . That the barbarians recede or are conquered, with the attendant fact

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that peace follows their retrogression or conquest, is due solely to thepower of the mighty civilized races which have not lost the fightinginstinct, and which by their expansion are gradually bringing peaceinto the red wastes where the barbarian peoples of the world holdsway.

– Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th U.S. President, U.S. VicePresident, 1906 Nobel Prize-Winner for Peace

 The few who understand the system, will either be so interested fromit's profits or so dependant on it's favors, that there will be noopposition from that class.-- Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863

Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it'slaws.-- Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

 The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financialelement in the larger centers has owned the government ever sincethe days of Andrew Jackson, and I am not wholly excepting theadministration of W.W. (Woodrow Wilson.) The country is goingthrough a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the UnitedStates—only on a far bigger and broader basis.– Franklin D Roosevelt

Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will

do that... I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry aboutAmerican pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America,and the Americans know it.-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister, October 3, 2001

 You kill one person it’s a tragedy, you kill ten thousand people it astatistic– Joseph Stalin [Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili] (1879-1953)

…who controls the past controls the future, who controls the presentcontrols the past.

– Joseph Stalin

 The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out actsof terror the public will clamor for such laws if the personal security isthreatened.-- Joseph Stalin

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the CentralIntelligence Agency back in ’47, if I had known it would become theAmerican Gestapo.– Harry S Truman (1884-1972) 33rd President of the United States,U.S. Vice President, U.S. Senator

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If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany and that way let themkill as many as possible.– Harry S Truman

Our strategy [after the fall of the Soviet Union] must now refocus onprecluding the emergence of any potential future global competitor.– U.S. Defense Planning Guidance, 1992

Oh Mortal Man, is there nothing you cannot be made to believe?-- Adam Weishaupt

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the mostcompletely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - nolonger a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government byconviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinionand duress of small groups of dominant men.-- Woodrow Wilson

Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know thatthere is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, sointerlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speakabove their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.- Woodrow Wilson