Revealing Quotes from the Powerful

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The illegal we do immediately. 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

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

In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the

aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated
citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive
personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications
techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.
— Zbignew Brzezinski, current advisor to Barrack Obama

The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more

controlled 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 be

autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially
its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist
democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power
is 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 the
human 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 geostrategy
are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the
vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the
barbarians from coming together.
– Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, (1997) p.40

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and
over 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 family
patriarch made the above statement in a 1966 interview for Columbia
University's oral history project on the Eisenhower administration.
Prescott Bush said that political dictum had been explained to him by
Claire Boothe Luce, congresswoman, ambassador and wife of Time-
Life media magnate Henry Luce (Skull and Bones 1920)
The world is divided in to three classes of people: a very small group
that makes things happen, a somewhat larger group that watches
things happen, and the great multitude which never knows what
happened.
– 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 great
opportunity 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 everything

the 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 am

strongly in favour of using gases against uncivilised tribes.
--Winston S Churchill, Great Britain’s then Colonial Secretary, referring
to 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 stronger
race 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 the

government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit
those 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 ordinary

Americans.
– Bill Clinton, U.S.A. Today, 11 March 1993

As America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find

it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues,
except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived
direct external threat.
-- Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Fascism is on the march today in America. Millionaires are marching

to the tune. It will come in this country unless a strong defense is set
up by all liberal and progressive forces... A clique of U.S. industrialists
is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic
government, and is working closely with the fascist regime in
Germany 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 would
be 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 to

supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the
fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity
in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling
families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism
occupy 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 great

military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state
akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external
menace. This involves the development to a high degree of the
nation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population
to a sense of sacrifice. Once these exist, we have gone a long way on
the path to war.
- John Foster Dulles

The Japanese were ready to surender and it wasn’t necessary to hit

them with that awful thing [atomic bomb]. . . . I hated to see our
country be the first to use such a weapon.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th President of the United
States and Supreme Allied Commander

For globalism to work, America can't be afraid to act like the almighty
superpower that it is....The hidden hand of the market will never work
without a hidden fist...McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell
Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the
world 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 banking
and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a
revolution 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 so
corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any
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 their
stockholders 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 can

play.
--Josph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless

one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must
confine 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 will
eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such
time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic
and/or military consequences of 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 the lie, and thus by extension, the
truth 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 shield
the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences
of 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 the
lie, 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 disaster

key' that will unlock the New World Order.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev

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

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

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

It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware

the people around us are of what is really happening to them.
– Adolf Hitler

The greatness of every mighty organization embodying an idea in this

world lies in the religious fanaticism and intolerance with which,
fanatically convinced of its own right, it intolerantly imposes its will
against all others
– Adolf Hitler

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for

the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more
easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The
primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a
big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but
would be ashamed to tell a big one.
--Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

...in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because
the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted… they
more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie… It would
never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they
would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the
truth so infamously.
– Adolf Hitler, Main Kampf

The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a

conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.
– J. Edgar Hoover

To the extent that the United States was governed by anyone during
the decades after World War Il, it was governed by the President
acting with the support and cooperation of key individuals and groups
in the executive office, the federal bureaucracy, Congress, and the
more 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 its
population.... In this situation ... our real job in the coming years is to
devise a pattern of relationships which permit us to maintain this
position of disparity... To do so we have to dispense with all
sentimentality and day-dreaming, ... concentrate everywhere on our
immediate 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 idea
that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine
and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by
human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and
behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is
humanity 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 little

longer.
– Henry Kissinger

Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in

foreign policy.
– Henry Kissinger

Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los

Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is
especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from
beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very
existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world
leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears
is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights
will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being
granted to them by their world government.
– Henry Kissinger

What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that

reject 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, as

we are the most
significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order,
and it will force the United
States to change it's perceptions.
-- Henry Kissenger, World Affairs Council Press Conference, April 19th
1994

Control the oil and you can control entire Continents. Control food and
you control people…
-- Henry Kissenger

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a

continuous stampede of patriotic fervour - with the cry of grave
national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at
home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us
up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
– General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) WWII Supreme Allied
Commander of the Southwest Pacific, Supreme United Nations
Commander

Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and
loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a
process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be
more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the
law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without
homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among
our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of
capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get
them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no
importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.
– J.P. Morgan

Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the

merger of state and corporate power.
– Benito Mussolini

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible

government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility
to the people.
– Theodore Roosevelt

American private enterprise is confronted with this choice; it may

strike out and save its position all over the world, or sit by and
witness its own funeral.... We must set the pace and assume the
responsibility of the majority stockholder in this corporation known as
the world.... This is a permanent obligation.... Our foreign policy will
be more concerned with the safety and stability of our foreign
investments than ever before.
– Standard Oil of New Jersey executive, 1946

The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a

conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.
-- J. Edgar Hoover
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 right

major 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 obviously

succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated
administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of
purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's
leadership is one of the most important and successful in human
history.
– David Rockefeller

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time
magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended
our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost
forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan
for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity
during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and
prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational
sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely
preferable to the National autodetermination practiced in past
centuries.
-- David Rockefeller in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting
in June of 1991

For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the

political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as
my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the
inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and
economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret
cabal 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 integrated
global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that
is 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 strict

confidence . . . I should welcome almost any war, for I think this
country needs one.
– Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th U.S. President, U.S. Vice
President, 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
that peace follows their retrogression or conquest, is due solely to the
power of the mighty civilized races which have not lost the fighting
instinct, and which by their expansion are gradually bringing peace
into the red wastes where the barbarian peoples of the world hold
sway.
– Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th U.S. President, U.S. Vice
President, 1906 Nobel Prize-Winner for Peace

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from
it's profits or so dependant on it's favors, that there will be no
opposition from that class.
-- Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863

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

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial
element in the larger centers has owned the government ever since
the days of Andrew Jackson, and I am not wholly excepting the
administration of W.W. (Woodrow Wilson.) The country is going
through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United
States—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 about
American 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 a
statistic
– Joseph Stalin [Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili] (1879-1953)

…who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present
controls the past.
– Joseph Stalin

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

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central

Intelligence Agency back in ’47, if I had known it would become the
American Gestapo.
– Harry S Truman (1884-1972) 33rd President of the United States,
U.S. Vice President, U.S. Senator
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 them
kill as many as possible.
– Harry S Truman

Our strategy [after the fall of the Soviet Union] must now refocus on
precluding 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 most

completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no
longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by
conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion
and 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 that
there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so
interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak
above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
- Woodrow Wilson