“The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.” StatesUnitedPowerUnited StatesCenturyExerciseArroganceAgony Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.” Has BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesIssuesEffectsPolicyStrangeInternationalIraqDestroyedCombinationArroganceAssumptionInvolvingIncompetenceOutlaw Author:Fareed Zakaria
“You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.” IfsMenSaidStillsStatesAgeEffortConditionsPoliticianMassCriticsImprovementGrantedWelfareArroganceInferiorsBetter Than YouWelfare State Author:Ludwig von Mises