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“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.” – Nikita Khrushchev

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“Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.” – Anatole Broyard

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“Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity [U.S. military-economic supremacy]… To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming… We should cease to talk about vague and…unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.” – George Kennan, Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department, 1948

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Lord Mandelson attempts to settle into his new office at the Lords but is disappointed to find that certain vital pieces of equipment have been placed just out of reach.

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“What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?” – Zbigniew Brzezinski

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“I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven; for in Heaven are only hermits, monks, beggars and apostles, while, in Hell, I shall enjoy the company of Popes, kings, and princes.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Lord Mandelson’s ministerial car is delivered to the House of Lords.

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Workmen erect new signage to guide Lord Mandelson to his office in the House of Lords.

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“Let’s face it, the world would be a boring place without oppressive governments. If we were free to do or say whatever we wanted, it wouldn’t be exciting to do or say anything.” – James Maverick Cook

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“Government – of whatever stripe – is happiest with traditional models of topdown publishing run by properly constituted enterprises that it can control and regulate.

It finds the conversational anarchy on the web difficult to understand and definitely very difficult to deal with. Hence the authoritarian tendency in government thinking on the internet, which is never that far from the surface.” – Adrian Sanders MP

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“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!.” – Orson Welles

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“Imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages, and the deportation of whole populations – not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.” – George Orwell

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“You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves.” – Cory Doctorow

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“Doesn’t Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?” – Martin Amis

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“Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world – particularly the Third World – since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.” – Ralph McGehee, former CIA analyst