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Quotes by Leader

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

"By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top."

"As the U.S. businesses search for new areas of economic growth, markets for their goods, a pool of skilled resources, and global locations to produce and manufacture, India could be their ideal partner. India's strong economy, and growth rate of 7.6% per annum, is creating new opportunities for our mutual prosperity."

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

"American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region."

"We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination."

"Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."

"Man should forget his anger before he goes to sleep."

"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."

"To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government."


"It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious."

"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement."

"I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots."

"And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon."

"The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."

"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

"Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work."

"I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy."

"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."

"So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries."

"In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."

"Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation."

"You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature."

"So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region."

"The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back."

"France cannot be France without greatness."

"But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society."

"Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside."

"If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed."

"Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority."

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
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