Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Quotes

Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Time
  • American
  • History

• Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Power
  • Become
  • Far

• This can sound as something naive. But if we are together in this union, it's because we choose to be one in many things. That's what makes the European Union experience so challenging and also a model. Why did we do this choice? Because we see that we share a common interest and common values.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Together

• I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

  

  Yuna
  • Family
  • Future
  • Start

• The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Power
  • Never
  • Mysterious

• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Service

• They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Man
  • Name

• I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Lifestyle

• I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Small
  • Day

• Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Live
  • House

• It's much easier to work with an unknown.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Work
  • Unknown
  • Much

• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Men
  • Small

• I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Up
  • War
  • Father

• As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Family
  • First
  • Wonderful

• 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of'... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • True
  • Dream
  • Earth

• I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Family
  • Because
  • Busy

• The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Help
  • Success
  • Small

• Imagine you can tell YouTube you have an hour to watch TV, and it would give you programming based around what you have watched in the past, what your friends watched and recommended, what your favourite celebrities tweeted about, and on one piece of input from you about what mood you are in.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Friends
  • Past
  • Mood

• What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Great
  • Acting

• He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

  

  Akiva ben Joseph

• Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Want
  • Political
  • Giving

• Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.

  

  Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
  • Family
  • Power
  • Small