Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes
I have no first-strike capability. I never choose to go into battle first. But I won't back down.
Carey, David, and John E. Morris. King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone. Crown Business, 2010.
This appears to be the first American utterance of a longstanding doctrine of foreign policy.
Many radicals of the day argued that violence was a legitimate form of protest and self defense. Goldman urged then not to advocate violence because under the then existing law and practical considerations, that gave the law enforcement authorities the tools to persecute the dissidents.
Shortly after, he backed off the notion of having a bloodbath removing protesting students.
This quotation is surprising in that Mrs. Roosevelt was a leading liberal and one of the leading advocates for peace. This quotation might have been authored by a right wing conservative of the early 21st century.
Israel's Arab enemies do not simply want to control the territory and/or the economic resources. Their aim, overtly stated thousands of times since the formation of Israel, is to "drive the Jews into the sea", murder the population, obtain revenge for their percieved humiliation that "foreigners" to the region and their religion could build a society so far advanced compared to Arabs on the harsh land abd without any of the oil riches that some of the Arab states had. Israel has won all the wars that the Arabs have initiated, and never murdered the population, and provide the "occupied territiries" with better medicine and infrastructure than the Arabs achieve on their own.
Stephen Allen Schwarzman is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist. He is the chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group, a global private equity firm he established in 1985 with former chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers and US Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson. Schwarzman briefly served as Chairman of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum.
