prominent figures Quotes

… assassination of subversives, politicians and prominent figures both within the national borders of certain Southern Cone countries and abroad … would create a most serious moral and political problem.

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

Powerful people come from all walks of life and leave their mark upon the world in a variety of ways. But one thing is common to them all. They move through the world with pure vitality. It is as though all their switches have been turned on.

One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

It has been known for some time that a major nuclear war might lead to nuclear winter that would destroy the attacker as well as the target. And threats are now mounting, particularly at the Russian border, confirming the prediction of George Kennan and other prominent figures that NATO expansion, particularly the way it was undertaken, would prove to be a "tragic mistake," a "policy error of historic proportions."

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.