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“The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.”

Knows Mean Doe Ideas Wish Party Policy Members Determine Socialism Possessed Bourgeois Enmity

Author:Karl Radek

“The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty.”

People Ifs May Feelings Wish Interest Lines Policy Difficulty Reasoning Avoiding Promoting Accord Offence

Book:The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

Source: The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States

“I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.”

Ifs Knows Way Matter Would Be Three Given Wish Influence Policy Exercise One Day Spokes Three Wishes

Book:Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays

Source: Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays

“We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.”

“If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.”

Ifs Wish Goal Policy Partners Russia

Author:Gerhard Schroder