Kenan Evren quotes
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“All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.”
-- Kenan EvrenSource : "Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change". Book by Meliha Altunisik and Özlem Tür, 2005.
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“All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals?”
-- Kenan EvrenSource : "TURKEY: An Uneasy Honeymoon" by William E. Smith, content.time.com. September 29, 1980.
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“Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time.”
-- Kenan EvrenSource : "TURKEY: Strong Army Medicine". content.time.com. December 08, 1980.
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Source : Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press
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“No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.”
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“Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.”
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“Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.”
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“No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.”
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“The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.”
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