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Quotes by Politician
"Crime is an overhead you have to pay if you want to live in the city."
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"According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background."
26
"This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy."
26
"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."
26
"But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time."
26
"You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection."
26
"I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware."
26
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
26
"A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy."
26
"The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent."
26
"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."
25
"Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples."
25
"Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality."
25
"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."
25
"In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country."
25
"Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub."
25
"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."
25
"I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war."
25
"Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic."
25
"We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws."
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"Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large."
25
"When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture."
25
"Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good."
25
"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."
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"They stayed by my side the whole time - my teammates, family and all the fans."
25
"Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism."
24
"In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy."
24
"You can't build Europe against anyone."
24
"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."
24
"I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death."
24
"Investing in health will produce enormous benefits."
24
"Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party."
24
"As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections."
24
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
24
"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."
Past,
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"I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups."
24
"A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country."
24
"To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me."
24
"It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party."
24
"Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important."
24
"The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude."
24
"But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained."
24
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
24
"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."
24
"The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries."
24
"I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out."
24
"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."
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