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Quotes by Statesman
"People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency."
90
"If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go."
90
"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it."
89
"So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe."
88
"The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living."
87
"The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality."
85
"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."
84
"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
84
"We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards."
84
"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance."
82
"We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done."
82
"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."
82
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
82
"In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord."
Time,
80
"We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough."
80
"There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age."
79
"If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business."
78
"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."
78
"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation."
77
"The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states."
77
"We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path."
77
"That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account."
75
"On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace."
75
"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."
75
"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."
75
"I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy."
75
"I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them."
74
"In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models."
73
"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career."
73
"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life."
72
"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans."
72
"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."
72
"We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience."
72
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