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Quotes by Statesman
"The responsibility to shape the destiny of a nation rests on the shoulders of its citizens; each one contributing to the collective progress."
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"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission."
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"A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests."
6
"I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy."
6
"By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime."
6
"As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed."
6
"The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final."
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"Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary."
6
"I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment."
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"Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them."
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"And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock."
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"It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner."
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"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
Ego,
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"Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are."
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"We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole."
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"Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth."
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"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way."
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"The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent."
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"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
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"The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full."
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"Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start."
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"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."
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"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."
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"But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown."
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"I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament."
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"Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy."
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"It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment."
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"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
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