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Quotes by Politician
"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."
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"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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"I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs."
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"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."
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"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."
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"But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years."
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"If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world."
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"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
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"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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"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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"You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important."
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"I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
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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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"I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active."
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"We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant."
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"The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it."
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"When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture."
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"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."
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"Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development."
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"I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation."
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"As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses."
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"When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy."
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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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"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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"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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"We also have a real opportunity to join NATO."
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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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"Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed."
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"Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon."
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"Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals."
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"Discoveries made during the last hundred years have shown that liberalism is the best system to improve a country's well being."
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"We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow."
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"The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out."
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"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
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"In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."
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"I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot."
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"Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist."
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"If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft."
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"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."
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"When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action."
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"Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples."
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"Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on."
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"When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good."
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"I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties."
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"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
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"Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic."
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"You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation."
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