Emmanuel Macron Quotes
I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country.
Macron, Emmanuel. Interview with Time Magazine. Time, Time USA, 9 Nov. 2017.
At the time Walker made this statement George W. Bush was in the 6th year of his troubled presidency. He was not a strong leader and was generally believed by all but his most loyal supporters to have not told the truth to the American people and many people thought that he and his administration had deliberately lied about many things – especially the Iraq war causes belli. Bush claimed that he had been misled by bad intelligence and that his failure to tell the truth was inadvertent.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield. For a more modern and more colorful expression of this idea, See Sargent Shriver: XXXXX.
This became Obamacare, the greatest achievement of the President’s first term.
Many of the Ukrainian politicians were very corrupt. When she was the Prime Minister the political culture of corruption was so strong that she was not able to break it. When Tymoshenko had been out of office and imprisoned by the new very corrupt opposition, the Ukrainians rose up and after weeks of street protests, the government collapsed and a new government was formed and Tymoshenko was freed from jail. She made this statement shortly after her release.
At the time there was no Secrecy & Classification System nor any laws enforcing secrecy or confidentiality. However there was no freedom of information laws of expectations even on the part of journalists. This was the first Freedom of Information policy of the American government. Some politicians were more open than others but there was no national, governmental before this. There were however leakers and whistleblowers though the terms were not in use. Note that Roosevelt herein created the first whistle blower protection—himself.
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician who has been serving as the president of France and ex officio co-prince of Andorra since 14 May 2017.
