Pat Buchanan Quotes

She assisted the Family of the Afghanistan President, Hamid Karzai in the early 2000s, hoping to establish a non-profit public service organization. Once it was operating she realized that the origination had a murkey accounting system and the "first family" was extracting money from the organization.

Referring to the Lyndon B. Johnson administration

Referring to his opponent, John McClellan. Attack campaigning and slandering one’s opponent has a long history in American Politics.

1st Earl of Beaconsfield

The United States economic embargo of Cuba is

Harry Hopkins was the special assistant to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt through the two great American crises, the Great Depression and World War II. Although he was a social worker with not a shred of political experience, Hopkins was originally selected by the President to operate the national relief program in the midst of the Great Depression. Soon he had spent more money than any human being in history without a taint of scandal. He had never been elected nor was he even ratified by the Senate. He also paid virtually no attention to members of Congress as he became the most successful manager in American Government history. Soon he became FDR’s most important aid. Then he and his wife actually moved into the White House and lived there with the Roosevelts and was a favorite of not only FDR but Eleanor Roosevelt as well. When WWII began the leading military and diplomatic leaders advised the President not to provide military aid to England or Russia believing that these countries could not hold out and the weapons would fall into German hands and be used against American soldiers. Roosevelt sent Hopkins to Europe to assess the military situation despite the fact that he had never had a single day of military experience. When his war advice contradicted that of the leading generals and admirals, many people were scandalized, especially when FDR took Hopkin’s advice above that of the generals and diplomats. Massive assistance was sent to those countries and indeed both were able to hold out just as Hopkins had predicted. No one in American politics before or since had that much influence or power. Most historians see that particular phenomenon as a unique combination of two extraordinary men at an extraordinary time and virtually impossible to replicate.

Russia has a vast border common with China and there has always been much trade and intercourse between the cultures. The Chinese were in many ways much more sophisticated than the Russians who were feudal for many years, The formality and structure of the bribery system was astounding to the Russians. Ironically, the Russians learned very well and corruption and bribery is commonplace in Russia and is tolerated by the government and the culture. In China however, the modern government, with full knowledge of the incredible tradition and history of Chinese bribery and corruption, is draconian when officials are caught. The death penalty is commonly meted out rapidly to Chinese officials accepting bribes and to those who did the bribing. With the rapid economic growth of China, there is worry that some of the old ways will return/

Bush had stated when he was running for President that he was opposed to placing America’s nuclear waste in the Nevada mountain which was very unpopular with Nevada voters, but once in the Presidency he changed his position. The reason might have been that there was no backup plan to Yucca Mountain that Bush could select. It was wither Nevada or back to the drawing board with radioactive waste piling up each day.