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Quotes by Statesman

"Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously."
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Bashar al-Assad
"Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously."
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"It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line."
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Ibrahim Babangida
"It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line."
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"I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence."
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King Hussein I
"I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence."
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"If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom."
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Kofi Annan
"If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom."
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"How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?"
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Kamisese Mara
"How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?"
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"Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it."
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King Hussein I
"Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it."
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"Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century."
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Tran Duc Luong
"Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century."
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"It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero."
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Corazon Aquino
"It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero."
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"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba."
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Kamisese Mara
"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba."
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"For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace."
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King Hussein I
"For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace."
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"Despair is the conclusion of fools."
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Benjamin Disraeli
"Despair is the conclusion of fools."
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"Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism."
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Said Musa
"Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism."
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"There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened."
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Abu Bakr
"There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened."
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"I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches."
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Mohammed Daud Khan
"I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches."
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"I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement."
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King Hussein I
"I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement."
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"We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians."
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians."
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"We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation."
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Mikhail Saakashvili
"We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation."
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"We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther."
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Paul Biya
"We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther."
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"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."
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Kofi Annan
"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."
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"We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future."
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King Hussein I
"We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future."
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"Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories."
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Said Musa
"Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories."
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"First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry."
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Ibrahim Rugova
"First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry."
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"Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest."
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Abu Bakr
"Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest."
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"Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene."
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Ibrahim Rugova
"Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene."
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"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."
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Lord Chesterfield
"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."
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"However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries."
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Ibrahim Rugova
"However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries."
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"The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans."
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Robert Mugabe
"The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans."
Man,
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"I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place."
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Sitting Bull
"I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place."
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"You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people."
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Abu Bakr
"You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people."
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"I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people."
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Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
"I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people."
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"The first quality that is needed is audacity."
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Winston Churchill
"The first quality that is needed is audacity."
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"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."
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Hugo Chavez
"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."
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"Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps."
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Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
"Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps."
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"I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain."
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King Hussein I
"I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain."
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"What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one."
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Sitting Bull
"What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one."
Man,
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"One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya."
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Akhmad Kadyrov
"One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya."
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"Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort."
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Said Musa
"Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort."
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"The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated."
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Franjo Tudjman
"The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated."
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"Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious."
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Thabo Mbeki
"Well, because lots of questions had been raised about the toxicity of the drug, which is very serious."
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"For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement."
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Mikhail Saakashvili
"For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement."
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"In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people."
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Wilma Mankiller
"In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people."
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"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
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Kim Campbell
"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
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"What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome."
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Vaclav Klaus
"What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome."
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"The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration."
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Bashar al-Assad
"The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration."
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"Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers."
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Hun Sen
"Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers."
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"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
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Henry A. Kissinger
"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
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"We have lost the art of sharing and caring."
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Hun Sen
"We have lost the art of sharing and caring."
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"Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case."
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Helen Clark
"Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case."
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"I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country."
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Paul Biya
"I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country."
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"If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning."
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Idi Amin
"If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning."
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