Leadership Dispute Quotes
The only soldier ever so honored
In a precursor to the 1948 unexpected 1948 Dewey defeat for the presidency, Charles Evans Hughes was favored to defeat Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Based on early returns in the East, New York Times and other newspapers had conceded the election to Hughes in their evening editions. Hughes retired early in his hotel. After midnight, a New York reporter called his suite. Hughes' son answered.
This is one of the most cutting put downs of a politician in a formal parliamentary session. Farage was fined 2000 Euros for this speech which had violated the rules against personal attacks.
This statement transformed Cromwell from a bully to a dictator. If the chief executive can dismiss the legislature, then there is no real check on the powers of the executive and he/she is a de facto dictator.
This quotation demonstrates the intense venom that some conservatives had for President Obama. He was not just a “bad” president or a “terrible” president—Obama was in his words not even “real” president.
Ivan Khrfistoforovich Bagramyan. Mikhailovich was looking for military scapegoats for the very unsuccessful defense of Russian Soil against the onslaught of the invading Nazis in WWII. He was given command of a combat division and became one of the Russian heroes in slowing the German Forces, taking enormous losses, and finally repulsing the Germans.