Bill Browder Quotes

The dictators play the United States like a fiddle and get away with it

You know in the West they support realistic forces.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

We all know what is meant by the term 'international community,' don't we? It's the West, of course, nothing more, nothing less. Using the term 'international community' is a way of dignifying the West, of globalising it, of making it sound more respectable, more neutral and high-faluting.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and challenge.

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality

All Western governments are just thieves. Nothing but evil comes from them.

This is not our choice but this is the law of the politics. You always reciprocate. Positively, negatively, but this is something which you cannot change. It was not invented by us. It is the law of international relations.

Corruption has also proved difficult to root out because it is not simply a matter of the powerful preying on the weak.… graft and fraud can offer ways for a poor person to climb the socioeconomic ladder.

They could care less about the public. The public comes in third. Number one is keeping their power. Number two are the special interests, the people footing the bill. Finally, the public good might be third — if they can profit from it. If there's no profit, they could care less.

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

Americans might not want to intervene in the outside world, but the outside world will still want to intervene in America.

Vladimir Putin has to create foreign enemies, and he also has to justify... he has to claim... he can't acknowledge that there's a legitimate protest against his authoritarian rule, so he's got to blame it on Hilary Clinton.