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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."
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Robert Mugabe
"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."
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"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."
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Robert Mugabe
"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."
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"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it."
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Seneca
"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it."
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"So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe."
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Robert Mugabe
"So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe."
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"Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought."
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Kwame Nkrumah
"Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought."
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"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."
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Thabo Mbeki
"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."
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"The sinews of war are infinite money."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The sinews of war are infinite money."
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"The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents."
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King Hussein I
"The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents."
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"The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality."
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Khaleda Zia
"The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality."
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"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."
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Nelson Mandela
"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."
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"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."
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Colin Powell
"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."
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"We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards."
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Robert Mugabe
"We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards."
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"Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil."
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
"Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil."
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"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."
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Kofi Annan
"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."
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"The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve."
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Ahmed Chalabi
"The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve."
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"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."
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Robert Mugabe
"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."
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"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
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Winston Churchill
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
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"I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister."
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"We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other."
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Stjepan Mesic
"We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other."
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"In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord."
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
"In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord."
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"We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough."
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Robert Mugabe
"We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough."
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"It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world."
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Mikhail Saakashvili
"It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world."
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"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."
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John Agyekum Kufuor
"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."
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"Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old."
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
"Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old."
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"If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business."
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Lee Kuan Yew
"If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business."
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"Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?"
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Francis Bond Head
"Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?"
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"I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace."
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King Hussein I
"I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace."
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"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."
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Sardar Patel
"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."
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"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation."
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Emile Lahud
"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation."
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"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."
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Omar Bongo
"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."
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"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."
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Rafik Hariri
"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."
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"Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population."
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John Agyekum Kufuor
"Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population."
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"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
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Kofi Annan
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
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"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."
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Thabo Mbeki
"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."
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"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."
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Rafik Hariri
"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."
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"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."
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Wilma Mankiller
"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."
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"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."
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Abu Bakr
"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."
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"I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy."
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
"I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy."
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"I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them."
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Moshe Sharett
"I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them."
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"And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people."
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Alberto Fujimori
"And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people."
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"As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it."
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Corazon Aquino
"As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it."
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"Peace in the head, peace in the stomach."
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"Peace in the head, peace in the stomach."
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"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."
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Omar Bongo
"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."
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"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career."
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Abdul Kalam
"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career."
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"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life."
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Corazon Aquino
"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life."
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"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans."
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Robert Mugabe
"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans."
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"The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change."
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Kenneth Kaunda
"The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change."
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"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."
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Abu Bakr
"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."
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"We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience."
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Bashar al-Assad
"We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience."
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