Pablo Neruda Quotes
Impunity for the great thief, and jail for the thief who steals a loaf.
Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973, Chilean Diplomat & Nobel Laureate, Literature, Criticism of corruption and kleptocrats
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President Ford had recently pardoned Richard M. Nixon.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
President Bush, who in 6 years had only pardoned or commuted the sentence of 2 people before, commuted the criminal jail sentence of Scooter Libby, the White House Vice Presidential Chief of Staff who had lied to the FBI and the Grand Jury in order to protect the role of White House officials in the illegally leaking the identity of a CIA covert operator to punish her husband—a critic of the administration.
The Supreme Court had ruled that there could be no limits placed on the amount of money that could be spent by a rich company or person to campaign for a candidate. It would deny them their right to freedom of speech. That was the context of Hollings’ remark.
He was the lead investigator of President Jacques Chiraq who had admitted being present, when mayor of Paris, at major payoffs of kickbacks to his party associates for awarding of public contracts. However, the French authorities gave the President immunity and ordered the investigation halted.
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This important statement would not have been a noteworthy quote as so many have said it before, except for the fact that she was writing as a spokesperson of Nationalist China and she was the wife of the Nationalist Party leader, Chiang Kai-Shek. And the great failure of Chiang’s governance was the corruption and the excessive exploitation of the Chinese people by the wealthy. Madame Chaing, educated at Vassar College, knew just what to say to Americans and she mustered incredible support for the Nationalist cause most of which would never have been forthcoming if Americans knew the truth about the Nationalist Government. It was so corrupt, that the vast majority of the people aided the Communists in defeating Chaing, expelling him from the mainland, and relegating his government to Taiwan. Madame Chaing’s hypocrisy was legend. See {615696}.
The crisis of inequality of income and wealth has occurred seven times in American history.
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (/nəˈruːdə/; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo neˈɾuða]), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
