“It’s a kind of model… “Perhaps it will inspire other leaders to also have the courage to look for the path of dialogue and encounter.” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, speaking of way in which the pope and…

“Mr President, it’s time to go full speed ahead with your executive action.” Raul Reyes, in USAToday, urging US President Barack Obama to bypass congress and the constitution on immigration. Source Reference “Obama, ignore GOP threats on immigration”

“I’d like to be an equal citizen in my own country.” Leo Varadkar, openly gay Health Minister of Ireland saying he’d like Ireland’s May 2015 referendum on same-sex marriage to pass. Varadkar thinks same-sex marriage is necessary for him to…

“Germany is exercising an almost solitary power.” Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy, writing in an Italian newspaper. Source Reference Britain’s EU retreat means German hegemony warns Prodi

“It is simply unthinkable that the EU can survive as a reconstituted Holy Roman Empire governed from Berlin,” Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, writing in the Telegraph, explaining that Germany has almost solitary control of the European Union. Source Reference Britain’s EU retreat…

“I’d do it again in a minute.” Dick Cheny, former Vice President of the United States, on whether he would again authorize the CIA interrogation methods condemned in a new US Senate report saying they were brutal and ineffective. Source…

“Marriage equality is an idea whose time has come.” Eric Holder, US Attorney General in an op-ed for USAToday in support of same-sex marriage. Source Reference Eric Holder: Taking the side of equality

“Just as a warring (European) continent found peace through unity by creating what became the EU, Arabs, Turks, Kurds and other groups in the region could find relative peacs in ever closer union.” Mohamed “Ed” Hussein, adjunct senior fellow for…

“After America comes North America.” General David Petraeus, former US _____ general and CIA Director, and CFR member, confidently proclaiming the demise of the independence of the United States (and consequently the US Constitution), thanks to NAFTA, at the Margaret…

“You have the incredible opportunity to lead in shaping the new world order for the 21st century…” US Vice-president Joe Biden, addressing a Colorado Springs Air Force Academy graduating class, May 28, 2014. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/05/30/vp-biden-tells-air-force-cadets-to-create-a-new-world-order/

“We are facing an evil against which the whole of the world should unite.” David Cameron, Prime Minister of Great Britain, speaking about the Islamic State to the UN General Assembly, September 25, 2014. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-at-the-un-general-assembly-2014

“Defending and promoting the human rights of LGBT persons is at the core of our commitment to advancing human rights globally — the heart and conscience of our diplomacy.” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, announcing the first-ever US Special…