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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0741464 | and even Trump treated him rather like a dog who kept creeping back into the house. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 810b61d | Fooling some of the people all of the time defined Trump's hard-core base. | Michael Wolff | ||
| df38c79 | To have worked anywhere near him is to be confronted with the most extreme and disorienting behavior possible. That is hardly an overstatement. Not only is Trump not like other presidents, he is not like anyone most of us have ever known. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 60f110c | son. The aide went on giddily talking about the special bond golfing dads have with their sons until it was clear that he was getting the Trump freeze--an ability to pretend you didn't exist while at the same time intimating that he might kill you if you did. By contrast, Melania's singular focus was her son. Together, mother and son occupied a bubble inside the Trump bubble. She assiduously protected Barron from his father's remoteness. Ev.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| a9afcab | People who had the money to bribe, who fundamentally believed that anyone could be bribed, and who had outsize influence on the legal structures that might otherwise restrict bribery, had become major foreign policy players in key parts of the world. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 575327b | Trump saw the world through the filter of other people's weaknesses. | Michael Wolff | ||
| cdba400 | He defended himself by ridiculing others. | Michael Wolff | ||
| be333e3 | Trump certainly ran his business as though it were a criminal enterprise. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 8b32010 | The Kushner family's desperate need for cash was turning U.S. foreign policy into an investment banking scheme dedicated to the refinancing of the Kushner family debt. | Michael Wolff | ||
| e0d442b | For Trump and his most dedicated confederates there was only one truly reliable issue: illegal immigration. In Trump's short political history, the issue had never failed to inspire and activate core voters. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 0ea4f79 | He had little doubt that Trump was guilty of most of what he was accused of. "How did he get the dough for the primary and then for the general with his 'liquidity' issues?" asked Bannon with his hands out and his eyebrows up. "Let's not dwell." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 22c264a | Trump could only be part of an organization that attended to him with unalloyed devotion; he could not really imagine another type. He insisted that the White House operate more like the Trump Organization, an enterprise dedicated to his satisfaction and committed to following and covering for his peripatetic and impulsive interests. Trump's management practices were entirely self-centered, not task-oriented or organizationally based. An ou.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| f18a9f9 | The inside joke became--echoing Karl Rove as Bush's brain and later Steve Bannon as Trump's brain--that now it was Sean Hannity who had become Trump's resident genius. Trump had ended up with someone even stupider than he was. Yet this was fitting, because Trump deeply resented the implication that he ever needed to depend on someone else's acumen or intelligence--or, really, that there could possibly be anyone who was smarter than he was. .. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2111c1a | Mind you true tragedy, supreme tragedy are not the worst in life, far from it: the squalid morass of unattempting impotence is the stifling of the soul and hope of man. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 895239f | Para Hitler, a propria vida nao importava. "Conduzi o povo alemao a grandes feitos, muito embora sejamos objeto de odio do mundo exterior", disse ele, decidido a viver de forma a "nao se envergonhar" caso viesse a morrer. "Sairei vitorioso desta luta ou cairei nela", concluiu. "Nunca sobreviverei a derrota de meu povo." | Martin Gilbert | ||
| be4d1d2 | He rejected the policy of seeking a direct accommodation with the Nazis at the expense of the smaller states of Europe. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| ba12037 | The full extent of Nazi persecution was evidence, as he saw it, that there would never be any meaningful accommodation between Nazism and Parliamentary democracy. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 98787cc | From the earliest successes of the Nazi movement, even before 1933, he expressed his repugnance of Nazi excesses, and he continued to do so after 1933, despite repeated German protests at his articles and speeches. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 7e1455a | Nothing could persuade him to accept the possibility of compromise with evil at the expense of others, or to abandon his faith in the rule of law, the supremacy of elected Parliaments and the rights of the individual. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 0266aae | In his continued forecasts of the potential German air strength, Churchill has often been accused of exaggeration. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| bbc9c36 | Although the Government and the Air Ministry sought to weaken the impact of Churchill's warnings by accusing him of exaggeration, within four years they were forced to recognize that the true situation was as he had forecast. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| fbf993e | How often I find myself called wrong,' Churchill had written to his wife on 17 April 1924, 'for warning of follies in time. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| c21073e | The Government's repeated response, however, even after October 1938, was to continue to attack his motives and judgement, and to seek to minimize the importance of his information. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| a6642a6 | No doubt it is not popular to say these things,' Churchill had written to his wife on 26 September 1935, 'but I am accustomed to abuse and I expect to have a great deal more of it before I have finished. Somebody has to state the truth.' During | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 1dd87c8 | led Churchill to work with many disparate groups to try to influence public opinion towards the need for greater vigilance in defence of democracy, faith in the moral tenets of the anti-totalitarian cause, | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 0cc4f3a | The passivity of the present Govt is beyond belief. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| cb04a05 | Hatred of him was aflame', and he added: 'No insults were too gross to hurl at him. One, of course, the Dardanelles fiasco, regarded as his particular crime, was always brought up.... The opposition were determined to shout him down. He was always admirably self-controlled and good-tempered, and he never failed to quell the opposition and get a hearing.' Whenever Churchill spoke, he was confronted by a vociferous group of hecklers, whom he .. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| b9bf086 | Don't imagine I am running away from the Dardanelles. I glory in it.'41 On | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 6a3188d | presented | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 1ab3209 | When Hogg asked Churchill directly: 'Is there a shadow of truth in any of the accusations made against you,' Churchill replied: 'Not the slightest. From beginning to end it is a monstrous and malicious invention.' Douglas | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 75af21a | recalled how his visitor stepped from her car and exclaimed, | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 869d2d0 | it is only experience and disillusionment that make me cautious. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 7cf69ed | Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| c90335e | I watched the daylight slowly creep in through the windows, and saw before me in mental gaze the vision of Death. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 50fd1f0 | The British offered Herzl a territory in Uganda, to be under the sovereignty of the British crown, into which a million Jews could immigrate and settle. The territory would be administered by the Jews and have a Jewish governor. When Nordau protested that Uganda was not Palestine, Herzl replied that, like Moses, he was leading the people to their goal via an apparent detour. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 36b5c89 | A calm and dispassionate recognition of the rights of the accused against the State, and even of convicted criminals against the State, a constant heart-searching by all charged with the duty of punishment, a desire and eagerness to rehabilitate in the world of industry all those who have paid their dues in the hard coinage of punishment, tireless efforts towards the discovery of curative and regenerating processes, and an unfaltering faith.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 69f7b61 | Is there the right to free expression of opinion and of opposition and criticism of the Government of the day? Have the people the right to turn out a Government of which they disapprove, and are constitutional means provided by which they can make their will apparent? Are their courts of justice free from violence by the Executive and from threats of mob violence, and free of all association with particular political parties? Will these co.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| f0e0830 | am greatly touched by the extreme kindness of yr offer & the willing sacrifice that it involves. It is a splendid proof of yr friendship. I cd not accept it from you. I want you to enjoy | Martin Gilbert | ||
| dc49811 | With the fall of the Conservative Government in 1929, Churchill's career entered a stormy and often lonely decade, the so-called 'wilderness years'. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 778a627 | It is nothing to me whether I am in Parliament or not,' he wrote to his wife on 8 March 1935, 'unless I can defend the cause in which I believe.' Churchill's five-year opposition to the Government's India policy was sincere and passionate, although individual Ministers sought to portray him as an enemy of Indian aspirations, and as a political wrecker. Churchill was in fact concerned throughout with the future welfare and unity of India, an.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 3d149f0 | From 1933 the problems of defence, and of the Nazi danger, were uppermost in Churchill's mind, dominating his Parliamentary speeches, his literary work, his newspaper articles and much of his private correspondence. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| 9d68f46 | Churchill himself favoured full provincial autonomy for the Indians, with adequate safeguards for the minority rights of the Muslims and the Untouchables, and he urged a vigorous social reform and a more liberal administration. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| fbe265f | He rejected the policy of seeking a direct accommodation with the Nazis at the expense of the smaller states of Europe. The full extent of Nazi persecution was evidence, as he saw it, that there would never be any meaningful accommodation between Nazism and Parliamentary democracy. From the earliest successes of the Nazi movement, even before 1933, he expressed his repugnance of Nazi excesses, and he continued to do so after 1933, despite r.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| a51c25d | The Government's repeated response, however, even after October 1938, was to continue to attack his motives and judgement, and to seek to minimize the importance of his information. 'No doubt it is not popular to say these things,' Churchill had written to his wife on 26 September 1935, 'but I am accustomed to abuse and I expect to have a great deal more of it before I have finished. Somebody has to state the truth.' During | Martin Gilbert |