"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business , for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominical Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." - he was     most decorated Marine in U.S. history Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, War is a Racket

“Naturally the common people don’t want war, but after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship, all you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” Herman Goering during the Nuremberg Trials

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. - Benjamin Desraeli, 1844

Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote: I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. - Woodrow Wilson

The real rulers of Washington are Invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes. - Justice Felix Frankfurter

Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure. - Joseph Kennedy

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the Government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

By the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. You may find you can get away with Virtual Presidents, Virtual Prime Ministers, and Virtual Everything. - Bill Clinton

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... and ... believes national boundaries should be eliminated and one-world rule established. - Tragedy and Hope, Carroll Quigley

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the NY Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings, and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop OUR PLAN for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a World Government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual ELITE and World Bankers is surely preferable to the national auto - determination practiced in past centuries. - David Rockefeller CFR Kingpin & Founder of the Trilateral Commission, June 1991

For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it. - David Rockefeller, Memoirs , 2002

David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the world economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work … In the world of David Rockefeller it is hard to tell where business ends and politics begins. - Bill Moyers

Most of the non-book quotes source: One World Money - From Hope to Tragedy - www.polidics.com  March 3 2008