#erna

I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense. ↗

— William P. Bundy

#action #alternative #any #convince #course

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. ↗

— Smedley Butler

#international #lives #losses #only #profits

Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse. ↗

— Vince Cable

#banks #been #governance #leading #our

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#audience #been #classic #cult #embraced

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity. ↗

— Lois Capps

#alternative #creativity #develop #efficiency #energy

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance. ↗

— Perry Christie

#country #electoral #experience #governance #i

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#call #community #demand #fair #i

The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#international #international community #national community #opportunity #preparedness

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#alternative #bad #consider #old #old age

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. ↗

— Powell Clayton

#adjustment #external #freedom #internal #rather