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David Rockefeller

"I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family."

Source : David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.329, Random House

David Rockefeller

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“Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.”
“I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.”

Source : Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.
“I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.”
“If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.”

Source : "Deceptive Overdraft Fees: There Ought to Be a Law!" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2013.
“I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.”
“There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.”
“Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.”
“Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.”

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