Harold Pinter Quotes

John Kerry presented his confidence and his convictions. It's not about confidence, it's about evidence. The Russians have completely opposite evidence that the missiles were thrown from an area where the rebels control. This reminds me - what Kerry said - about the big lie that Collin Powell said in front of the world on satellites about the WMD in Iraq before going to war. He said "this is our evidence."

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

Russia doesn’t like it when it is humiliated, when it is pressured.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

The Russians are liars – you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength.

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

Only in the Orwellian world of double-speak employed by President Barack Obama and billionaire elitist Michael Bloomberg would nonsense be hailed as 'common sense.'

There is a theory that China will tend to push, and if you bend, they will push some more.

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

We've walked away from our treaty obligations in Ukraine, putting NATO at risk.

Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.

In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.

I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand in their own names!

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.