Have you never been struck by the fact that communists are more numerous in Catholic than in Protestant countries?

You have to understand what communism represents in a Catholic country. Have you never been struck by the fact that communists are more numerous in Catholic than in Protestant countries? It is because the Roman Church instilled discipline among Catholics with the result that when they joined a a different 'church' they did not question its orders. Protestants have to find their own salvation. There is no hierachy to tell them what to think.

Mitterrand to George Bush , cited in P. Short, Mitterrand: a study in ambiguity (2013), 324

Democracy has never been a single monolithic entity available for export to all parts of the world

Democracy has never been a single monolithic entity available for export to all parts of the world, as George W. Bush and Tony Blair imagined. It is plural, not singular; it depends on tacit understandings of particular cultures as much as on formal rules. ... For Abraham Lincoln, democracy meant 'government of the people, by the people, for the people. For the British High Tory Leo Amery it meant 'government of the people, for the people, with but not by the people'.

D. Marquand, Mammon's Kingdom (2014), 154

I am with Amery, save I do not believe that is democracy, though it is desirable.

He loves black people with a fuck of a lot of money

I would like to say yeah, he [Kanye West*] was right but he wasn't ... I'm sure George Bush has a lot of black friends. He loves black people with a fuck of a lot of money. He doesn't care about people that don't have money. It just so happens that those people are black.

William James Adams [will.i.am], quoted in D. Lynskey, 33 Revolutions per minute: a history of protest songs (2010), 676


* This was Kanye West saying on live television, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 'George Bush doesn't care about black people'