Quotes about Political Disasters

Vladimir Putin

A major geopolitical disaster

Theis was the phrase he used to describe the collapse of the Soviet Union. This and other statements he made about the breakup of the Russian empire, together with his actons reagading foreign affairs, led many Western observers to think that Putin was trying to build up Russia to be amajor World Power as it was relatively recently. This annual address to the Duma has the importance of the United States' President with the State of the Nation Address. Every phrase and sentence is very carefully crafted. Also see Quotation 644184 under Related Quotes foir a more explicit statement,

Dick Cheney

The deficit is potentially Ronald Reagan’s Vietnam.

Paul Lazarsfeld

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

Peter Wehner

Our democratic belief that anyone can be a political leader paradoxically feeds into the anti-democratic belief that we should look to one person to quickly and easily save us. No one, alone, can fix it, and in our system of government, this authoritarian approach is a prescription for catastrophe.

James Tobin

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Vladimir Putin

Many thought or seemed to think at the time that our young democracy was not a continuation of Russian statehood, but its ultimate collpase.. They were mistaken.

This and other statements he made about the breakup of the Russian empire, together with his actons reagading foreign affairs, led many Western observers to think that Putin was trying to build up Russia to be amajor World Power as it was relatively recently. Also see Quotation 644183 under Related Quotes foir a more explicit statement,

John Ralston Saul

A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.

Political Disasters Quotes