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Quotes by Statesman

"I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government."

"Empower others as you climb the ladder of success; true leaders uplift those around them."

"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."

"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."

"The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach."

"The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations."

"We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels."

"There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime."

"A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity."

"I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history."

"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."

"This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king."

"But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement."

"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."
Ego,

"As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU."

"We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability."

"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."

"If everything is very important, then nothing is important."

"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population."

"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."

"As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?"

"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in."

"We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution."

"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place."

"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."

"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

"One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America."
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