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Politics Quotes
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."
98
"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."
61
"You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany."
51
"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."
37
"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."
37
"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."
37
"I am against any reconciliation with Israel."
36
"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."
36
"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."
36
"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."
35
"It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy."
35
"Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing."
34
"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."
33
"I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians."
33
"I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband."
33
"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."
32
"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."
32
"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."
32
"So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside."
31
"A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies."
31
"Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism."
31
"Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside."
30
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."
30
"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."
29
"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."
28
"After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate."
28
"America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit."
28
"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."
27
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
27
"Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other."
27
"We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory."
27
"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."
27
"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."
26
"A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets."
26
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