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"Shackled by its ball and chain like convicted lifers or carrying its ruins in their stomachs like archaeologists," - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian futurist and fascist, on the subject of pasta.

"I'll buy the first round Monday night before we say our goodbyes" - Joe Ellis, BP America Vice President and Head of US Government Affairs joking about climate change to colleague, 10 August 2017

“They’re coming to take our country again, just this time without the muskets,” - Raymond Weatherill.

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective about who we allow to go through higher education." - Roger Freeman, advisor to Richard Nixon, 1970

"Fuck your parliament and your constitution" - US President Lyndon B Johnson on Cyprus during meeting with the Greek Ambassador, June 1964. As quoted in "I Should Have Died".

"What is an attack on the king, if not a work-related accident?" - Benito Mussolini during his socialist phase as quoted in "M. Son of The Century".

“People attribute all sorts of things to me" former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 7 July 2022, in response to questions about whether he said: "all the sex pests are supporting me”.

"...our real Disease; which is Democracy, the poison of which by a subdivision will only be the more concentrated in each part." - Alexander Hamilton, US Founding Father and banker.

"Enrich yourselves!" - slogan of Bolshevik revolutionary and theorist Nikolai Bukharin advising on how to achieve communism.

"He killed my ma, he killed my pa, he gets my vote" - 1997 campaign slogan of Charles Taylor, Liberian warlord and president.