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Quotes by Statesman
"One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos."
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"We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation."
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"I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen."
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"We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?"
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"When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek."
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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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"You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom."
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"We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther."
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"The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress."
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"I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can."
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"Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?"
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"O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out."
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"In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed."
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"To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria."
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"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
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"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."
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"Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed."
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"Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together."
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"So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in."
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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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"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face."
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"Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization."
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"Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation."
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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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"Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them."
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"The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes."
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"In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development."
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"I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where the weapons are."
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"May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house."
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