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Quotes by Politician
"I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister."
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"The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression."
31
"The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems."
31
"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict."
31
"Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual."
Body,
31
"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word."
31
"All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet."
31
"When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men."
31
"But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out."
31
"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,
31
"If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing."
31
"It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents."
31
"Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism."
31
"We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction."
30
"When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy."
30
"Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization."
30
"I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties."
30
"Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group."
30
"I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs."
30
"Whatever insults my State insults me."
30
"Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact."
30
"I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet."
30
"I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure."
30
"But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years."
30
"I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly."
30
"I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power."
30
"I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality."
30
"There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate."
30
"When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage."
30
"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."
30
"When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out one against the other I take the course indicated by what remains."
30
"I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family."
30
"To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world."
30
"I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation."
30
"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
29
"We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year."
29
"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
29
"We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule."
29
"So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities."
29
"Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon."
29
"Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals."
29
"The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism."
29
"Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession."
29
"A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write."
29
"We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty."
29
"But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country."
29
"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers."
29
"We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience."
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