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Quotes by Politician
"All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet."
173
"They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions."
173
"Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations."
172
"Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon."
172
"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."
172
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
171
"I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister."
171
"We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors."
171
"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."
171
"My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it."
171
"I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support."
171
"Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities."
171
"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers."
171
"Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union."
171
"The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will."
170
"But if too many countries, as has been the case, interfere too much in the internal affairs, the political situation of Afghanistan, then of course we can't hope satisfactory results."
170
"If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations."
170
"But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country."
170
"Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism."
170
"What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity."
169
"If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well."
169
"Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy."
169
"In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels."
169
"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."
169
"Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it."
169
"I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure."
169
"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."
169
"A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally."
168
"I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question."
168
"No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration."
168
"I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active."
168
"Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being."
168
"Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important."
168
"Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader."
167
"It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party."
167
"Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good."
167
"A country's strategy is always based on a fundamental philosophical outlook."
167
"Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East."
166
"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."
166
"The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us."
166
"If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once."
166
"In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism."
165
"Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals."
165
"My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure."
164
"Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based."
164
"In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds."
164
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