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Quotes by Politician
"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."
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74
"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."
74
"The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely."
74
"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."
74
"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."
74
"We will talk about cooperation to destroy the disease as soon as we can."
74
"I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history."
73
"Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die."
73
"For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state."
73
"Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed."
73
"The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will."
73
"We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands."
73
"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."
73
"With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students."
73
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
73
"Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism."
73
"The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems."
72
"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."
72
"What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching."
72
"Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party."
72
"I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active."
72
"Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed."
72
"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."
72
"If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully."
72
"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."
71
"What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity."
71
"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."
71
"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."
71
"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
71
"Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized."
71
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
71
"I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country."
71
"The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country."
70
"I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer."
70
"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
70
"We also have a real opportunity to join NATO."
70
"We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan."
70
"The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly."
70
"But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well."
70
"We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed."
70
"Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist."
70
"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."
69
"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."
69
"In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector."
69
"It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya."
69
"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."
69
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