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Quotes by Statesman

"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."

"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go ."

"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."

"It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism."

"All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you."

"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard."

"Like it or not, we are all in business and the products we are selling is our unique selves."

"I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands."

"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."
Ego,

"It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change."

"Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark, leave a positive legacy!"

"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."

"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."

"What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink."

"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."

"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming."

"A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse."

"Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions."

"The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it."

"Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety."

"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."

"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."

"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."
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