Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

The people who own the country are now going to get to run it.

The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

The right can distort anything it wants.

I'm interested in power.

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

Our tribunals — unlike those in the United States — have been traditionally subordinated to political power. Mexico has a history of corrupt elections where the will of the people has been subverted by the wealthy and powerful.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

I have only to raise a finger and the whole face of Europe is changed.

Politics. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

If he is reelected, I can keep him in ignorance of my affairs.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesize and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

America is less democratic than it might be because the preferences of the ultra wealthy often outweigh the preferences of everyone else.

Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don't like it.

Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.

Donald Trump ran for autocrat, he didn't run for president. The first thing in autocrat does is take over the media, or alienate the media, which is what Trump is doing, he is doing it actively.

Look at it from [Vladimir] Putin's perspective, right. He's a trained intelligence officer, worked for the KGB, very talented, manipulated people much smarter than Donald Trump. He played this perfectly, right. He saw that Donald Trump wanted to be complimented.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.