Donald Hodel Quotes
... a step in the direction of tyranny.
Urging a presidential veto of a tough ethics law prohibiting unethical behavior on the part of government officials:
Donald Hodel, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (Republican), Quoted on The McNeil Lerher Report, November 23, 1988
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Arguing the need to limit the power of the legislature:
Honore Gabriel Victor Requiti. The French King had just opened the French National Assembly which contained deputies (delegates) from the clergy, the nobility and the people. The King had made what some deputies thought was a very constructive and responsible speech opening the assembly. Mirabeau observed that as long as there was an absolute monarch in place, even a benign one. It was the presence of a monarch itself that was evil.
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.
He was expelled from Parliament for such.
Donald Paul Hodel is an American former politician who served as United States Secretary of Energy, Secretary of the Interior, and chairman of FreeEats.com, which disseminated push polls for the Economic Freedom Fund. He was known during his tenure as Secretary of the Interior for his controversial "Hodel Policy," which stated that disused dirt roads and footpaths could be considered right-of-ways under RS 2477.
