Kevin McCarthy Quotes
When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
McCarthy, Kevin. "Address on Foreign Policy." Official Press Release, U.S. House of Representatives, 2015.
Belafonte was on stage with Hugo Chavez, the autocratic president of Venezuela and a patent demagogue who constantly attacked Bush and the American government. Other than an entertainer who knows little about politics making an over the top attack on the president this quotation is ironic because he was at the time on the stage with and supporting one of the two most autocratic dictators of the Western Hemisphere—Hugo Chavez. In that context, the accusation was as absurd as it can get.
Trajan ande Caligula were each Roman Emperors.
This quotation was extremely damaging to Russian Communism at the time. Goldman had been extremely supportive of the initial Russian Revolution and was an enthusiastic Marxist. She was not the typical conservative who would attack the revolution no matter what the outcome.
Prevented by the Military from ever taking office. She was commenting on recent attacks against minority Muslims by the majority Buddhists and one of the major reasons she claimed was the lack of trust in the Muslim community that had developed during the period of military dictatorship.
Referring to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms:
Soon he had the power of a dictator but he didn’t force his will on the vast majority of the Cubans. His decrees made all the wealthy and the cronies of the dictator Batista outraged and most of them left Cuba. He was a dynamic demagogue and the people handed him dictatorial powers which he did not reject. He was so popular that he was the only leader in the Americas who would give 4 hour speeches and move through the streets without any bodyguards until the United States and dissident expatriates tried to assassinate him. With all that popularity, none the less he would not allow open criticism of his regime and jailed many political opponents. So he indeed became a dictator but never needed the machine gun to maintain power.
Urging a presidential veto of a tough ethics law prohibiting unethical behavior on the part of government officials:
Kevin Owen McCarthy is an American politician serving as House Minority Leader in the United States House of Representatives since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as House Majority Leader from 2014 to 2019. He was the U.S. Representative for California's 22nd Congressional District from 2007 to 2012 and has served in the 23rd District since 2013 after re-districting. The district is based in Bakersfield and includes large sections of Kern and Tulare counties, as well as part of the Quartz Hill community in northwest Los Angeles County.
