Famously
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514 examples of Famously in a sentence
Mao Zedong
famously
asserted that, “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
But as soon as we move to wider issues of foreign and defense policy, Xavier Solana, the High Representative of the EU Council of Ministers, may be at the telephone number that Henry Kissinger
famously
could never find in Brussels when he wanted to "speak to Europe" in his day, but Solana is hardly in a position to speak for "Europe" in important matters today.
A Class of Its OwnPRINCETON – The very rich, F. Scott Fitzgerald
famously
wrote, “are different from you and me.”
In November 1975, seven months after the Khmer Rouge had commenced its genocidal slaughter, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
famously
said to Thai Foreign Minister Chatichai Choonhavan: “You should also tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with them.
But the siege was never intended to starve Gazans; as Dov Weissglass, a former aid to Ariel Sharon,
famously
observed, the aim was “to put the Palestinians on a diet.”
Nearly two centuries ago, John Quincy Adams, America’s sixth president, was wrestling with domestic demands for intervention in the Greek war for independence when he
famously
said that the US “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
As the economist Herbert Stein
famously
observed, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
This precedent suggests that 5-10 years is a plausible time frame over which the US could lose what Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, then France’s finance minister,
famously
called the “exorbitant privilege” afforded it by issuing the world’s main international currency.
Former US diplomat George F. Kennan
famously
said that “democracy fights in anger.”
More recently, George W. Bush – who
famously
declared that he did not play “small ball” – attempted to transform the Middle East with his “freedom agenda.”
A transactional leader, he
famously
stated that he did not do “the vision thing.”
Al Gore
famously
depicted how a sea-level rise of 20 feet (six meters) would almost completely flood Florida, New York, Holland, Bangladesh, and Shanghai, even though the United Nations estimates that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that, and do no such thing.
Karl Marx
famously
said that religion is “the opium of the people.”
Oscar Wilde
famously
said that there is no such thing as an immoral book, just well or badly written books.
In 2010, former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King
famously
used the game of Sudoku to depict global savings imbalances, highlighting that the numbers in the table cannot be chosen independently.
Ending East Asia’s History WarsTOKYO – Georges Clemenceau, who, as France’s prime minister, led his country to victory in World War I,
famously
said that “war is too important to be left to the generals.”
Five years ago, Wen
famously
warned of a Chinese economy that was in danger of becoming “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable.”
Keynes
famously
retorted that in the long run we are all dead.
Nonetheless, as Mancur Olson
famously
observed, it is the individual interests of the parties that drive collective success.
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
famously
chided Colin Powell for his reluctance to involve the US military in the Balkans in the 1990s, in part because of her own family’s experience as Czech refugees from Communism.
Winston Churchill
famously
regretted overseeing the United Kingdom’s catastrophic return to the gold standard in 1925, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
As Deng
famously
said, what mattered was not the color of the cat, but whether it caught the mice.
In his 2000 presidential bid, George W. Bush
famously
promised “compassionate conservatism” and a humble foreign policy, but governed very differently, as when he decided to invade Iraq.
Farewell Hillary, For NowTOKYO – F. Scott Fitzgerald
famously
said that “there are no second acts in American lives.”
Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter
famously
raised this concern in a 1996 article in the Harvard Business Review.
Need Versus GreedNEW YORK – India’s great moral leader Mohandas Gandhi
famously
said that there is enough on Earth for everybody’s need, but not enough for everybody’s greed.
In the New Testament, Christ
famously
answers a question about obedience to civil authorities by examining a coin and telling the Pharisees, “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.”
But the country’s economic model remains, as former Premier Wen Jiabao
famously
put it, “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable.”
As Australia’s wartime prime minister, Ben Chifley, once
famously
remarked, “The trouble with gentleman’s agreements is that there aren’t enough bloody gentlemen.”
Then again, as Upton Sinclair
famously
quipped, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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