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Quotes by Diplomat
"Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes."
49
"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."
40
"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."
37
"Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up."
37
"I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture."
37
"What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear."
34
"It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."
33
"Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation."
33
"The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet."
32
"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again."
31
"The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few."
28
"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
27
"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."
27
"Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions."
26
"It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair."
26
"I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can."
23
"It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character."
22
"A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none."
22
"The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have."
19
"The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles."
18
"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them."
17
"We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place."
16
"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."
16
"The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be."
15
"It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it."
13
"Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable."
Will,
11
"40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight."
11
"I have no political ambitions for myself or my children."
9
"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
9
"The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war."
9
"You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done."
8
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
8
"The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point."
7
"It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him."
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