"Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this."

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African Leader

Politics, May, Promises, Will

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"Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this."

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."

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"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."

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"Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!"

Steven Magee, British Author

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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Politics, Improvement, Country, Leadership

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"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans."

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"And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination."

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"Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people."

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"For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election."

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"South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts."

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