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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation."

"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."

"Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary."

"The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries."

"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."

"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."

"Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries."
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