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"Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results."
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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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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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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."
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"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."
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"Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces."
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"In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together."
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"It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain."
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"But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability."
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"The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice."
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"The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries."
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"The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States."
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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."
Communication
"Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers."
Information
"I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!"
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"Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature."
Nature
"My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions."
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"From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks."
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