Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. – James Buchan
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. – James Buchan
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. – James Buchan
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think theyre fine fellows and dont need to explain themselves. – James Buchan
You know, many people have said that Im on the edge and Im maverick for some of the big operations that Ive done. Im not at all. I pray I ask God to give me wisdom, Should I do it?, guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important. – Benjamin Carson
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt