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Quotes by Leader

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

"Direct benefit transfer is a big reform. Earlier who knew where MNREGA money was going? Now it is sent by DBT. So are gas subsidy payments and student scholarships. For me all these are reforms in governance, transparency."

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

"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."

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

"The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress."

"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go."

"Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent."

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

"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."

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

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

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

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

"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."

"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."

"There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights."


"We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it."

"Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity."

"We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States."

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


"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority."

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."

"France cannot be France without greatness."

"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."

"Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself."

"So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized."


"The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free."

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."

"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
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