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Quotes by Politician
"Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important."
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"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."
52
"We will talk about cooperation to destroy the disease as soon as we can."
52
"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."
51
"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."
51
"Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party."
51
"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."
51
"Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim."
51
"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."
51
"But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks."
51
"A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write."
51
"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."
51
"Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism."
51
"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."
51
"The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention."
51
"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."
50
"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."
50
"A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring."
50
"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."
50
"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."
50
"As for myself, I was never against Russia."
50
"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."
50
"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."
50
"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."
50
"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."
50
"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."
50
"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."
50
"There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate."
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"It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party."
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"It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated."
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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."
49
"What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity."
49
"Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization."
49
"Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group."
49
"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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"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 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."
49
"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."
49
"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
49
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."
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"Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized."
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"We have now recently launched the national integrity plan."
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"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
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"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."
48
"That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides."
48
"I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs."
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