“It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.” PoliticalLiteratureInterestPartyVoteWestPolitical PartiesIsraeliSettlers Author:Chris Matthews
“The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate them especially in their nationalism against the West. But mutated by Saddam Hussein it became also one that very, very much admired, and grew a special moustache in admiration of the work of Yosif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, the great Georgian known to us historically as Stalin. So you had him in modern Iraq, a regime in our own time, that was openly, directly modelled upon the two most extreme examples of European totalitarianism.” TwoPartyKnownModernSpecialExampleMovementGrewWestIraqExtremesNationalismAdmirationRegimesSocialistSaddamHusseinTotalitarianismFascistsEmulateMoustacheSocialist PartyGeorgians Author:Christopher Hitchens
“In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and so there tends to be debate about how much public sector intervention you think is needed for a variety of reasons, and there are very important differences on party lines that should be fought out.” ThinkingNeedsShouldImportantReasonDifferencesLinesPartyGroupsNeededWestDebateVarietySocialistInterventionPrivate SectorPublic Sector Author:Barney Frank
“The governments and the communist parties in Vietnam and China are doing their best to develop their local economies. But the rise of countries in Asia is not in opposition to development and affluence in Western nations. It is a mutually beneficial development. The interests of Western investors are protected in our country. Both we and the West benefit from this in equal measure.” CountryGovernmentNationsInterestPartyEconomyDevelopmentEqualBenefitsWestWesternChinaLocalsOur CountryOppositionCommunistInvestorsVietnamProtectedAsiaBeneficialAffluenceCommunist Party Author:Nguyen Minh Triet