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Quotes by Politician
"There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers."
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"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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"That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing."
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"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda."
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"Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made."
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"Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy."
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"After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate."
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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
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"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
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"We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow."
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"We will talk about cooperation to destroy the disease as soon as we can."
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"I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country."
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"The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police."
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"We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other."
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"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."
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"For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state."
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"We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory."
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"Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it."
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"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."
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"The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will."
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"Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant."
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"It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves."
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"I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America."
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"Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it."
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"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."
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"We have now recently launched the national integrity plan."
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"You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important."
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"We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book."
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"What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
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"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children."
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"I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed."
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
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"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."
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