"Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results."

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"It is easier to start a war than to end it."

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"The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations."

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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."

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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."

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"In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models."

Independence

"In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity."

Army

"When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights."

Education

"The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South."

Nation

"Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it."

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"But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished."

People

"Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences."

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"I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet."

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"The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries."

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"Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature."

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