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How many divisions does the Pope have, Stalin is supposed to have sneered.
Stalin's alleged query about papal authority ("How many divisions does the Pope have?") expresses more than just cynical realpolitik.
How many divisions does it have?" Indeed, the EU has no army, and is beset by divisions of the political sort.
Mullen thinks that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly is a matter of integrity — well, how many divisions does he have?
"Sari is a wonderful guy," he said, "but how many divisions does he have?" A lot of things vex the question of Israel and the Palestinians: religious passion, the inability of each side to recognize the other's pain or historical claims, the sheer smallness of the region, its intimacy.
"How many divisions does the Pope have?" Soviet dictator Stalin famously asked when criticized by the Vatican shortly after World War II.
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At a speech last fall at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, he recalled, "I'm anticipating the question was going to be 'How many divisions.' He said, 'Mike, how many maneuver brigades?' I didn't even know what a maneuver brigade was...
How many divisions has the pope?
How many divisions has the pope, Stalin once asked.
Joseph Stalin famously wondered how many divisions the pope had.
Stalin once asked derisively how many divisions the pope had.
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