“I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.”
– Cornelius Vanderbilt

“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you.”
– Cornelius Vanderbilt

“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
– Jay Gould

“Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.”
– Andrew Mellon

“The lesson is clear: if you are a thief, steal by the billions or trillions, and then no one can do anything about it. If you are in the drug trade: handle only billions (or hundreds of billions) in drug money, and then you will get away with it. If you don’t want to pay taxes, be a member of the top 0.001% of the world’s super-rich and hide your billions in offshore tax-free accounts. If you want more, create a global economic crisis, demand to be saved by the state to the tune of tens of trillions of dollars, and then, tell the state to punish their populations into poverty in order to pay for your mistakes.
In other words, if you want to indulge your criminal fantasies, lie and steal, profit from death and drugs, dominate and demand, be king and command, become the highly-functioning socially-acceptable sociopath you always knew you could be… think big. Think bank. Serial killers, bank robbers and drug dealers go to jail; bankers get bailouts and get an unlimited insurance policy called “too big to fail.”
– Jurriaan Maessen, Global Research

“Ever since the days of Henry Ford, the Economic Elite have needed a thriving US middle class to increase growth and profits, but now, in the global economy, they view the US middle class as obsolete. They increasingly look globally for profits and they would rather pay cheap labor in countries like China and India.”
– David DeGraw

“Within the highest circles of power and wealth, a lack of pity and remorse is practically a prerequisite to success, and only the psychopathic mentality can thrive.”
– Stefan H. Verstappen

“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim – nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements [BIS] in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations … Each central bank sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”
– Carroll Quigley in his book Tragedy and Hope

“Communism and socialism are themselves forms of monopoly. The only difference is that in this case, the monopoly is operated by the government. But what if an international banker, through loans to the state, manipulation of a central bank, campaign contributions, or bribes, is able to achieve dominion over a government? In that case, he would find socialism welcome, for it would serve him as an instrument to control society.”
– James Perloff in his book The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline

“The Depression [1929] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here [United States] so that they might emerge as rulers of us all.”
– Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Banking and Currency Committee, 1932

“I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire and I control the British money supply.”
– Nathan Mayer Rothschild

“Either the application for the renewal of the charter [of the Bank of the United States] is granted or the United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war.
… Teach these impudent Americans a lesson. Bring them back to colonial status.”
– Nathan Rothschild, who controlled the Bank of England, said this after the U.S. government under President Andrew Jackson refused to renew the charter of the privately owned and controlled Bank of the United States.

“We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”
– international banker James Warburg testifying before the U.S. Senate Feb. 7, 1950

“John D. Rockefeller J. P. Morgan, and other kingpins of the Money Trust were powerful monopolists. A monopolist seeks to eliminate competition. In fact, Rockefeller once said: “Competition is a sin.” These men were not free enterprise advocates.”
– James Perloff in his book The Shadows of Power

“During the past two centuries when the peoples of the world were gradually winning their political freedom from the dynastic monarchies, the major banking families of Europe and America were actually reversing the trend by setting up new dynasties of political control through the formation of international financial combines. These banking dynasties had learned that all governments must have sources of revenue from which to borrow in times of emergency. They had also learned that by providing such funds from their own private resources, they could make both kings and democratic leaders tremendously subservient to their will.”
– Carroll Quigley in Tragedy and Hope

“Psychopaths litter history with genocides and the destruction of entire nations and empires. Historical examples include such monsters as Stalin, Pol Pot, Ivan the Terrible, and Caligula. While there are many that make it to the pinnacle of the political stage there are also such historical figures as J.P. Morgan, Randolph Hearst, and Mayer Rothschild, professional psychopaths that reach the pinnacle of the financial stage where they cause no less misery and destruction as their political counterparts.”
– Stefan H. Verstappen

“Justice is incidental to law and order.”
– J.Edgar Hoover – Director of the FBI 1924-1972

“That fellow [J. Edgar Hoover] was a master blackmailer. The moment he would get something on a senator he’d send one of the errand boys up and advise the senator that we’re in the course of an investigation and by chance happened to come up with this data on your daughter. But we wanted you to know this-we realize you’d want to know it. But don’t have any concern, no one will ever learn about it. Well, Jesus, what does that tell the senator? From that time on, the senator’s right in his pocket.”
– William Sullivan, number three in the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover to Los Angeles Times, 1973

“Martin Luther King is the most notorious liar in the country.”
– J.Edgar Hoover

“Never once did I hear anybody, including myself, raise the question: ‘Is this course of action which we have agreed upon lawful, is it legal, is it ethical or moral? … We never gave any thought to this line of reasoning… The one thing we were concerned about was this: Will this course of action work, will it get us what we want?… As far as legality is concerned, morals or ethics, [it] was never raised… I think this suggests really in government that we are amoral. In government … the general atmosphere is one of amorality.”
– William Sullivan, third in the FBI under Hoover to Los Angeles Times, 1973

“Allen Dulles, the Director of the CIA under President Eisenhower, ordered the assassination of [Congolese President Patrice] Lumumba in August 1960. Before the CIA could act, Mobutu Sese Seko, Lumumba’s private secretary, intervened militarily and removed Lumumba from power.”
– David Model

“I.G. Farben was most famous for putting the gas in gas chambers; it was the producer of Zyklon B and other gasses used on victims of the Holocaust… [The Bush family] hired Allen Dulles, the future head of the CIA, to hide the funds they were making from Nazi investments and the funds they were sending to Nazi Germany.”
– William Bowles

“The financing for Adolph Hitler’s rise to power was handled through the Warburg-controlled Mendelsohn Bank of Amsterdam and later by the J. Henry Schroeder Bank… Chief legal counsel to the J. Henry Schroeder Bank was the firm of Sullivan and Cromwell whose senior partners included John Foster and Allen Dulles.”
– Gary Allen in his book None Dare Call It Conspiracy

“[President] Dwight Eisenhower, named Allen Dulles CIA Director. Dulles’ forte was overthrowing governments and he was quite good at it. With coups in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) under his belt, Dulles was riding high in the late Fifties and moved Cuba to the top of his to-do list.”
– Ray McGovern

“The CIA overlords of the [Bay of Pigs – Cuba] invasion, Director Allen Dulles and Deputy Richard Bissell had their own plan on how to bring the United States into the conflict… What they expected was that the invaders would establish a beachhead… and appeal for aid from the United States.”
– journalist Daniel Schorr told National Public Radio, March 2001

“As the de facto head of the Warren Commission, [CIA Director Allen] Dulles was perfectly positioned to exculpate himself and any of his associates, were any commissioners or investigators or journalists tempted to question whether the [JFK] killing in Dallas might have been a CIA covert action.”
– Ray McGovern

“CIA Director Allen Dulles and his brother Secretary of State John Foster Dulles] were in touch with the power elite, and a mere President [Eisenhower] influenced them not at all.”
– L. Fletcher Prouty

“In the case of Vietnam, the course followed by the U.S. government was established by two international Wall Street lawyers, John Foster Dulles and Allen Welch Dulles, among other, more invisible powers.”
– L. Fletcher Prouty

“A central focus of the [Averell] Harriman security regime in Washington (1950-53) was the organization of covert operations, and “psychological warfare.” Harriman, together with his lawyers and business partners, Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles, wanted the government’s secret services to conduct extensive propaganda campaigns and mass-psychology experiments within the U.S.A., and paramilitary campaigns abroad. This would supposedly ensure a stable world-wide environment favorable to Anglo-American financial and political interests.”
– Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin

“Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, Carmel Offie and Frank WIsner were the grand masters. If you were in a room with them you were in a roomful of people that you had to believe would deservedly end up in hell.”
– James Angleton, CIA Chief of Counterintelligence

“[CIA Director] Allen Dulles had gone to see President Eisenhower as early as March 1960 seeking approval to develop a plan to overthrow [Fidel] Castro. The original idea for using Mafia figures to assist the CIA in this plan originated as early as 1960.”
– Phillip F. Nelson

“Allen Dulles created the CIA, assisted the Nazis, covered up the Kennedy hit from his Warren Commission perch and struck a deal with the Muslim Brotherhood to create mind-controlled assassins. Brother John Foster Dulles presided over the phony Goldman Sachs trusts before the 1929 stock market crash and helped his brother overthrow governments in Iran and Guatemala.”
– Dean Henderson

“John Foster Dulles was an accomplished warmonger. In 1933, he and his brother Allen had rushed to Cologne to meet with Adolf Hitler and guaranteed him the funds to maintain the Nazi regime. The Dulles brothers were representing their clients, Kuhn Loeb Co., and the Rothschilds.”
– Eustace C. Mullins

“Max Warburg, brother of Kuhn-Loeb’s Paul Warburg. ran a family financial powerhouse in Frankfort, Germany… The Warburg connection is reported to have helped the Axis powers financially. At the end of the war in 1919, the Treaty of Versailles meetings were attended by Rothschild connected men like Paul and Max Warburg, John Foster Dulles (of Kuhn-Loeb), Colonel [Edward Mandell] House, Thomas Lamont (of JP Morgan) and Allen Dulles (of Kuhn-Loeb). The harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles totally set the stage for World War II.”
– David Smith

“Do nothing to offend the dictators [in Latin America] ; they are the only people we can depend on.”

“Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.”

“In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of external menace.”

“In every society a minority always dominated. The question was how to do it. If the minority affronted the majority, it lost influence. If discretely exercised… the minority influence could be effective and desirable.”

“We must regard Arab nationalism as a flood which is running strongly. We cannot successfully oppose it, but we can put up sand bags around positions we must protect – the first being Israel and Lebanon and the second being the oil positions around the Persian Gulf.”

“John Foster Dulles was an accomplished warmonger. In 1933, he and his brother Allen had rushed to Cologne to meet with Adolf Hitler and guaranteed him the funds to maintain the Nazi regime. The Dulles brothers were representing their clients, Kuhn Loeb Co., and the Rothschilds.”
– Eustace C. Mullins

“I hated my enemies even before they held me captive because hate sustained me in my devotion to their complete destruction and helped me overcome the virtuous human impulse to recoil in disgust from what had to be done by my hand.”
– Senator John McCain

“Get on with the business of killing our enemies as quickly as we can, and as ruthlessly as we must.”
– Senator John McCain, about the Taliban in Afghanistan

“I believe that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators.”
– Senator John McCain

“John McCain fits perfectly as an authoritarian leader, possessing most, if not all, of these traits: dominating, opposes equality, desirous of personal power, amoral, intimidating and bullying, faintly hedonistic, vengeful, pitiless, exploitive, manipulative, dishonest, cheats to win, highly prejudiced (racist, sexist, homophobic), mean-spirited, militant, nationalistic, tells others what they want to hear, takes advantage of “suckers”, specializes in creating false images to sell self, may or may not be religious, usually politically and economically conservative/Republican”
– John Dean

Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote, four years before birthing the TC with his godfather, David Rockefeller: “[The] nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force. International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation state.”

“The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”
– Zbigniew Brzezinski in his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era

“People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.”
– Zbigniew Brzezinski in Between Two Ages

“Years ago the publication of the book [Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes] in the US was killed by Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski in a very cunning way. What was his motivation, I may only guess. Was it his own private strategy, or did he act as an insider of the “great system” as he surely is? How many billions of dollars and how many human lives the lack of this science has cost the world.”
– Andrew Lobaczewski, author of the book Political Ponerology: a science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes

“In the United States, as you know, we are sympathetic with what you are trying to do here … We wish your government well.”
– Henry Kissinger to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, prior to his 1973 overthrow (and death) of Chilean President Salvador Allende

“Today Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.”
– Henry Kissinger speaking at the annual Bilderberger meeting, May 21, 1992

“Control the food, and you control the people.”
– Henry Kissinger

“We don’t want a big story leaking out that we are trying to overthrow the government [of Chile].”
– Henry Kissinger to President Richard Nixon [transcript]

“Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.”
– Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

“The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.”
– Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon

“Jimmy Carter is not the President of the United States. The Trilateral Commission is the President of the United States; I represent the Trilateral Commission.”
– Henry Kissinger’s declaration to the head of state of Canada

“Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?”
– Henry Kissinger

“Henry Kissinger produced, in April 1974, the classified National Security Council Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200), directed to Washington high officialdom, defining a program aimed at population reduction in Third World countries possessing needed raw materials, since growing populations with aspirations for a better standard of living give rise to high prices for such materials. Kissinger named 13 target countries for population control, including Brazil, India, Egypt, Mexico, Ethiopia, Columbia, and others.”
– F William Engdahl in his book “A Century of War”

“There’s no debate in the world as to whether they [Iraqis] have these [nuclear] weapons. We all know that. A trained ape knows that.”
– Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Sept. 13, 2002

“I don’t believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.”
– Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, May 14, 2003

“Make the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists.”
– Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in an internal memo, 2007

“I think [Vice President Dick] Cheney is insane. The neocons are insane. I don’t know of a sane one.”
– Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and former editor of the Wall Street Journal. 2008

“The good Lord did not see fit simply to put oil under those countries friendly to the United States.”
– Vice-President Dick Cheney

“The [Persian] Gulf will be a primary focus of U.S. international energy policy… American efforts to obtain increased supplies of foreign oil will also require the threat of or the use of force to dissuade hostile forces from attempting to obstruct the flow of petroleum to the United States. This, in turn, will require an enhanced U.S. capacity to operate militarily in areas of likely fighting over oil.”
– Vice-President Dick Cheney

“The war on terrorism is different than the Gulf War was, in the sense that it may never end.”
– Vice-President Dick Cheney

“There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.”
– Vice-President Dick Cheney

“We know Saddam has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.”
– Vice-President Dick Cheney

“The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.”
– Vice-President Dick Cheney – lecture at West Point, June 2002