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Quotes by Politician
"My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation."
199
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
199
"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master."
191
"Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!"
188
"Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man."
186
"No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you."
177
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
163
"In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path."
149
"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."
149
"If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai."
148
"A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries."
137
"Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers."
136
"I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people. I only know that the sole option is to leave Iraq to the Iraqi people."
133
"There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries."
128
"We have no such weapons at all, no chemical weapons, no biological weapons."
127
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
127
"However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account."
126
"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world."
126
"At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic."
126
"A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action."
125
"With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them."
123
"A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization."
123
"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude."
123
"The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause."
121
"Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival."
121
"Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine."
120
"Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions."
119
"His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction."
118
"American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England."
117
"Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States."
114
"I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that."
113
"Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again."
113
"Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force."
113
"We don't want to keep secrets anymore."
113
"Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable."
112
"The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people."
112
"Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously."
111
"The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened."
110
"This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy."
110
"The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together."
War,
110
"I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East."
109
"It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds."
109
"Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources."
108
"During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions."
108
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