Failed States Index

Famous quotes containing the words failed, states and/or index:

    Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
    Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
    Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)