Neville Chamberlain Quotes
It doesn’t make things easier badgered for a meeting of Parliament by the two Oppositions & Winston [Churchill] who is the worst of the lot.
Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940, British Prime Minister (Conservative), Letter to his sister, 1939, Chamberlain and the Conservatives had a majority despite the alliance of two opposition parties but felt his Conservative colleague Winston Churchill was by for the worst of the opposition.]
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To James Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister (Labour):
When his Republican political opponents controlled Congress, they had constant Congressional investigations of the President and his wife. Tens of millions of dollars were spent, and the President was constantly diverted from the important problems to deal with the investigations. For all that time and money all they came up with was the fact that Clinton was having a sexual liaison with a White House intern and lied about it to keep the information away from his wife, daughter and the public. The Republican majority impeached Clinton late in his second term, and when a trial was held in the Senate, the Republicans could not even get 50% of the Senators to vote “Guilty.” Clinton began to joke about the ineffectual Republican efforts.
When the Republican leadership in 2008 stated that the Republican’s primary objective was to prevent the re-election of Barack Obama, it was not the first time that American politicians admitted that their major objective was to cripple an administration. This quotation shows a very early example. See {592642} for Adams view of Senator Randolph.
Most American politicians and citizens, unlike DeLay, believe that arguing against the opponents’ political philosophy should be done with debate, civil argument, advocacy, speechmaking and writing and not by attacking opponents and confronting them whenever possible. Later, DeLay was convicted and sentenced to jail for money laundering and illegally spending and raising campaign funds. He was also reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for unethical methods of fund raising for other earlier actions.
Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1937 to 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, conceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany. Following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of World War II, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days later and led the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the war until his resignation as prime minister on 10 May 1940.
