“... in Kiev, texted Sondland on 9 September at 12.34 a.m. Three minutes later Sondland replied: ‘Bill, I never said I was “right”. I said we are where we are and believe we have identified the best pathway forward. Let’s hope it works.’ ‘As I said on the phone,’ Taylor wrote back ten minutes later, ‘I think it’s crazy to withhold security ...”

“... MIT as much as MIT needed Washington.’ Through the Presidencies of Reagan, Bush the Elder and Clinton, the pattern repeated itself: Administrations bent on cost-cutting, and with many other pressing priorities, set out to take the axe to the science budget. They did have some momentary and local successes, but in the long run and in general the attempts ...”

“... is to press for its general adoption. Globalisation had been the unifying term for Blair and Clinton. Democracy and war became the words of choice in 2002, because, together, they were sufficiently vague to cover the differences between the technocratic ideology of Blair and the aristocratic populism of a second-generation Texas oil-man. The proper ...”

“... I turned on the computer I discovered that much of the commentariat felt the same. James Carville, Bill Clinton’s former attack dog, was behaving as if his own pet dog had just been run over by a bread truck.It got worse. Why are Republican operatives in South Carolina telling registered Republicans, who are allowed to vote in the state’s Democratic ...”

“... hopes remain high among activists that the motion will reach the House itself. After all, Hillary Clinton was one of the sponsors of a similar bill in the Senate only three years ago. And her then rival, Barack Obama, was even more outspoken on the issue. ‘America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian ...”

“... apathetic generation is being fiercely wooed by a new style of politicking. New but familiar. Clinton pulled the same, wonderfully shrewd stunt in America: speak to the younger generation, play the sax, intimate you might even once have enjoyed a toke. Now Blair and supporters are apeing him exactly: the wannabe rock band, the pose astride a ...”

“... the difference – which is a sign of how vivid the early traumas remain. She likes both Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush, and resents Downing Street’s failure to make better use of her as an ‘asset’, but doesn’t notice that the two presidential wives have a clarity to their respective roles that she never seeks in her own. She eventually sees through ...”

“... in the importance of ‘parent power’, he contrived to forget that his own Local Government Bill was about to abolish the commission that he had set up to enhance parent power three years before. When he dismissed the fears voiced by objectors to super-casinos, he closed his eyes to the harm they would do to the indebted and vulnerable. When he ...”

“... legal discrimination and guaranteeing the black right to vote, was the President who signed the Bill declaring King’s birthday a national holiday. There were two reasons for this historical irony. First, King was being celebrated as ‘poster boy’ (Dyson’s term) for the achievement of formal legal equality by those claiming that the struggle for ...”

“... of US-China relations began nearly ten years ago, during Obama’s first term, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Clinton had taken a close interest in Chinese affairs as far back as the 1990s, when she was first lady. In 2011, as secretary of state, she initiated the pivot to Asia of the navy’s carrier ...”

“... Telegraphs in the Dublin government, O’Brien was one of the main architects of the Criminal Law Bill, which, he admitted in a rather incautious interview with a US journalist, he intended to use to ‘cleanse the culture’ of nationalist influence. If necessary, the Bill would be used against anything from nationalist ...”

“... of fighters and arms from Libya in the wake of Gaddafi’s downfall. Earlier this month Hillary Clinton claimed that ‘Mali was, by most indicators, on the right path until a cadre of soldiers seized power.’ But why was it so easy for a few dozen sergeants and junior officers to topple the government? Why didn’t more Malians stand up in defence of the ...”

“... proved to us, why shouldn’t we believe that the members of this group arranged 9/11? Or that Bill Gates is planning to kill us with vaccines, or inject us with nanochips hidden in vaccines, or both? Why shouldn’t the entire course of world events have been planned by a group of elite families hundreds, even thousands, of years ago? Why shouldn’t ...”

“... first used by journalists in the mid-1970s, haunted American politics for decades afterwards. Bill Clinton’s campaign promise in 1992 to ‘end welfare as we know it’ marked the full convergence of neoliberalism with neoconservativism. Even before inflation brought fresh opprobrium down on welfare spending, one policy pioneer was already seeking ...”

“... this thing off.He did imagine it, though. And when he did pull it off – by first beating Hillary Clinton (‘I didn’t see how she could close America’s political divide’) to the Democratic nomination and then defeating John McCain in the presidential election – he felt he had proved something both about himself and his country. ‘My having been ...”