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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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"Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results."
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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."
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"Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers."
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"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."
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"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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