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Quotes by Politician
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"
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"The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind."
35
"The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis."
35
"Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results."
35
"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."
35
"In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement."
35
"The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden."
35
"Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub."
35
"I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war."
35
"And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received."
35
"You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy."
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35
"But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most."
35
"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government."
35
"I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy."
35
"Perform without fail what you resolve."
35
"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
35
"There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization."
34
"Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it."
34
"But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business."
34
"It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds."
34
"As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud."
34
"The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy."
34
"One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem."
34
"A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world."
34
"The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart."
34
"A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest."
34
"I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States."
34
"They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people."
34
"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."
34
"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."
34
"They say the brain never ages it's a shame it can't teach the body that trick."
34
"I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break."
34
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
34
"They stayed by my side the whole time - my teammates, family and all the fans."
34
"Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world."
33
"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter."
33
"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
33
"That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition."
33
"As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music."
33
"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."
33
"The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families."
33
"Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement."
33
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
33
"Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not."
32
"Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance."
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