“I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions.” CountryStatesLightTodayRememberPresidentDemocracyPlansBecomingInstitutionsClintonScandalVergeColombiaPresident Clinton Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.” WorldStatesGovernmentFoundPresidentUnitedUnited StatesPleaseInstitutionsVicesVice President Author:Will Rogers
“I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.” IfsWorldTryingJobsMovingFightingPresidentCommunityLeaderSawsConditionsApproachOrganizationInstitutionsTradeCooperationAsianSummitIntegratedPacificCoalitionsUnstableNatoInterdependenceCooperativesWorld TradeBosniaKosovoWorld Trade Organization Author:William J. Clinton
“In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.” IfsCountryPresidentDevelopmentInstitutionsDemocratic Author:Condoleezza Rice
“The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer, or next autumn; it could come next year; it will almost certainly occur during President William Clinton's first term in office; it will occur soon. That collapse into disintegration is inevitable, because it could not be stopped now by anything but the politically improbable decision by leading governments to put the relevant financial and monetary institutions into bankruptcy reorganization.” YearsFirstsGovernmentMightNextPresidentTermDecisionOfficeSummerSpringInstitutionsClintonFinancialInevitableAutumnRelevantCollapseNext YearMonetaryBankruptcyImprobableDisintegrationMonetary SystemReorganization Author:Lyndon LaRouche
“Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.” HumorPoliticalPresidentReligiousPlansInstitutionsFavorsPolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution and the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two.” TwoNightNationsSidesPresidentRoomsSeriousMessagesStandingInstitutionsCongressDividedLaw EnforcementClappingUnbecoming Author:Mark Udall