R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

It is unclear how much money Trump has, but it is not enough to matter in Russia. If he keeps up his pose as the tough billionaire, he will be flattered by the Russian media, scorned by those who matter in Russia, and then easily crushed by men far richer and smarter than he.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers.

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

There's a small amount of super-wealthy people that want to maintain their billions and billions of dollars. Those are the people who are really making the decisions.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

The essence of American politics consists of the manipulation of populism by elitism.

Chile is still at the whim of powerful, traditional elites who sit as a higher societal authority than the elected government.

The present King and Queen are popular, very, and increasingly so, but they have no message for the Labour Party who believe them, and rightly I fear, to be but the puppets of a Palace clique…. Still, it is the aristocracy which still rules England although nobody seems to believe it.

There is a burgeoning wealthy class in Nigeria, but it is small, and its members thrive largely thanks to political connections and connivances.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.

In the U.S., these sights are no longer a surprise to me. I see army generals, captains of industry, and politicians of all colours and creeds on American television.

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

I think that reality is divorced from former vice president Joe Biden who hob knobs with these Hollywood dictators.