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Quotes by Politician
"The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted."
80
"No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration."
80
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."
80
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
80
"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."
80
"Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage."
80
"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win."
79
"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."
79
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
79
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
79
"The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed."
78
"If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well."
78
"Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality."
78
"All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet."
78
"Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations."
78
"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."
78
"We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty."
78
"Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important."
78
"They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country."
78
"Investing in health will produce enormous benefits."
77
"You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks."
77
"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
77
"The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us."
77
"The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it."
77
"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak."
77
"You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection."
77
"To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world."
77
"When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open."
76
"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."
76
"Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group."
76
"The burden of disease falls on the poor."
76
"Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other."
76
"If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country."
76
"Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession."
76
"I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality."
76
"It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated."
76
"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."
75
"A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally."
75
"Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy."
75
"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
75
"So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities."
75
"When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture."
75
"It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party."
75
"But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country."
75
"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers."
75
"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."
75
"The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians."
75
"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past."
74
"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,
74
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