"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine
and other great
publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion
for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we
had been subject to the bright 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
autodetermination practiced in past centuries"
--David Rockefeller in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991