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Politics Quotes
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."
149
"A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies."
91
"It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy."
80
"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
72
"We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done."
69
"You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany."
62
"So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula."
50
"Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that."
49
"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it."
49
"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."
48
"As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed."
47
"I am against any reconciliation with Israel."
45
"I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start."
44
"I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense."
44
"We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe."
44
"Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy."
43
"What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth."
43
"So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside."
42
"Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing."
42
"I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband."
41
"Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended."
40
"Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism."
40
"In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector."
39
"I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians."
39
"The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests."
38
"After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate."
38
"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
38
"As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise."
38
"I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics."
37
"Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside."
37
"Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other."
36
"So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region."
36
"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
35
"Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect."
35
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