He calls himself a maverick, but he’s just a bullshitter (via onegoodmove).
In 1996, Madeleine Albright, then the U.S. secretary of state, was asked on national television what she felt about the fact that 500,000 Iraqi children had died as a result of U.S.-led economic sanctions. She replied that it was “a very hard choice,” but that, all things considered, “we think the price is worth it.”
— Madeleine Albright
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