“For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers:...” — Martin Jacques Quote

“For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to pay their dues for what they did to those whom they possessed and treated with contempt.”

“Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing nationalist. Unlike Koizumi, for example, he has questioned the validity of the postwar Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, which found many of them guilty of war crimes.”

“On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.”

“Italy has no colonial past in Iran.”

“Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.”