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Latin America’s Leftist MirageEver since Deng Xiao Ping’s remark that “it’s not the color of the cat that matters, but whether it catches mice,” it has been clear that the old Cold War divisions of left and right, communism and democracy, were obsolete.
They are respected for what they control – the Soviet legacy of nuclear arms and “Christian energy resources,” to quote Vladimir Putin’s bizarre remark on his first official trip to Paris – but not for their economic performance or their essence.
And his undeniable success in implementing his labor laws, exemplified by sparse street demonstrations, has been undermined by his irrepressible will to provocation, reflected in his gratuitous remark that “today when there is a strike in France, no one notices it!”
Marco Rubio’s remark about Trump’s small hands?
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s remark during a recent trip to Washington that he was more concerned about Turkey than Iran exposed the huge gulf between Iraq and the US, which now appears to have lost all significant political influence on Iraqi affairs.
Throughout the meeting, participants will be waiting for the moment when one of the leaders (maybe Angela Merkel) loses patience and makes the obvious and true remark that the process is a waste of effort.
The Hindu newspaper recently reported on the case of a 24-year-old lawyer, Anima Muyarath, who was suspended from the Calicut Bar Association after posting a remark on her Facebook page about sexist behavior in the workplace by her male superiors.
But his remark inadvertently underscored Turkey’s new reality, in which any perceived opponent of the current regime can be jailed, with or without evidence, for terrorism or other violent acts.
That remark may have been a bitter payback for the role Spencer believed the media, and the paparazzi who worked for them, played in Diana’s death, but it was not without truth.
The “all options” remark was music to the ears of those who somehow believe that there is nothing the US needs more than another war – and who are, no doubt, safely out of range of North Korean artillery.
It was just a taunting remark heard only by his opponent.
But his opponent was Nigerian-born, and the remark was a racist insult.
His strategy, he would often remark, was “to develop Singapore’s only available natural resource, its people.”
America Confronts Old and New EuropeUS Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's petulant remark of last year about "old and new Europe" was right for the wrong reasons.
But our host’s next remark erased it instantly.
As early as 1997, I warned about a repeat of the collapsed economic order of 1929-1933 in my book A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Global Economics : “The slightest remark, for example by the President of the American Federal Bank, Alan Greenspan, at the beginning of December 1996, that an “irrational exuberance” had led to an overvaluation of the financial markets was enough to drive the nervous investors on the high-flying stock markets of Asia, Europe and America into a spin, and panic selling.
One thing we know about the North Koreans is that, unless they can use such rhetoric in their own propaganda (they got far more traction out of former US President George W. Bush’s infamous “axis of evil” remark than he ever did), they simply don’t care what is said about them.
Much attention has been drawn to US President Donald Trump’s remark that the United States “will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea” should the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) threaten it or its allies.
Even so, Cameron’s supposed remark that the UK was more likely to leave the EU if Juncker’s candidacy succeeded was strange and disquieting, not least because any renegotiation of the terms of British membership will be carried out primarily with other member states, not with the Commission.
Bush Inherits the WindThe most shocking statement in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was President George W. Bush’s remark that “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees” that protect New Orleans from flooding.
This is a more powerful indictment of the reasoning behind recent attempts to justify spending cuts during a recession than is a spreadsheet error or a flippant remark about Keynes’s sexuality.
Bannon’s “opposition” remark should serve as a reminder of this recent history.
Does the business press ever call JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon cute, or describe him as “pouty,” or remark on his good hair and nice abs, as though he were a male stripper?
In a remark almost echoing Helmut Kohl, Fischer proclaimed: "Wars have become impossible within the EU, both politically and militarily.
That remark is true, and unfortunate.
But a remark by one mining company executive from a developing country caught the spirit of change.
This was the point of his famous remark, “In the long run we are all dead.”
Margaret Thatcher appointed several Jews to high office, prompting the former prime minister Harold MacMillan’s sniffy remark that her cabinet contained “more Old Estonians than Old Etonians.”
But Bangladeshi President Hasina Wajed’s remark that Yunus had “spent years sucking the blood of the poor” echoes similar charges being made in neighboring India against companies and banks that sought to emulate Grameen.
The outrage evoked by Macron’s remark, however, appears to have little to do with its inaccuracy.
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