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Quotes by Statesman

"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."
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Mikhail Gorbachev
"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."
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"I was willing to accept what I couldn't change."
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Abdul Kalam
"I was willing to accept what I couldn't change."
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"I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government."
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"Empower others as you climb the ladder of success; true leaders uplift those around them."
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Sardar Patel
"Empower others as you climb the ladder of success; true leaders uplift those around them."
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"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
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Dean Acheson
"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
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"The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth."
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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
"The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth."
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"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."
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Tarja Halonen
"Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence."
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"The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace."
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"The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach."
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Ibrahim Babangida
"The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach."
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"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."
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Angela Merkel
"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."
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"When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions."
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Robert Jackson
"When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions."
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"We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels."
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Silvia Cartwright
"We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels."
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"I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life."
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Mikhail Gorbachev
"I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life."
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"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."
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Condoleezza Rice
"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."
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"Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked."
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Vincente Fox
"Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked."
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"A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity."
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George Grenville
"A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity."
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"I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history."
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Colin Powell
"I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history."
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"Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff."
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Colin Powell
"Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff."
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"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."
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John Lubbock
"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."
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"This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king."
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Gouverneur Morris
"This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king."
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"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."
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Ibrahim Babangida
"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."
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"For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial."
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Pericles
"For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial."
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"Honor is the reward of virtue."
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Honor is the reward of virtue."
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"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."
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Colin Powell
"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."
Ego,
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"As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU."
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Angela Merkel
"As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU."
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"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."
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Condoleezza Rice
"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."
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"I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days."
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Gerhard Schroeder
"I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days."
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"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."
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Nikita Khrushchev
"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."
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"Taiwan is an independent sovereign country."
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Chen Shui-bian
"Taiwan is an independent sovereign country."
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"If everything is very important, then nothing is important."
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Brian Mulroney
"If everything is very important, then nothing is important."
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"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."
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Nikita Khrushchev
"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."
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"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."
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Moshe Sharett
"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."
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"If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."
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Edmund Burke
"If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."
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"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."
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Tony Blair
"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."
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"War would end if the dead could return."
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Stanley Baldwin
"War would end if the dead could return."
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"My commitment is my commitment."
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Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
"My commitment is my commitment."
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"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?"
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Hjalmar Branting
"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?"
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"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."
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Colin Powell
"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."
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"We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution."
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Chen Shui-bian
"We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution."
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"Statistics are no substitute for judgment."
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Henry Clay
"Statistics are no substitute for judgment."
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"Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation."
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
"Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation."
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"The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit."
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Robert Grosseteste
"The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit."
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"The world is no longer against us."
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Yitzhak Rabin
"The world is no longer against us."
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"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."
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Shimon Peres
"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."
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"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."
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Camillo di Cavour
"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."
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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
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Edmund Burke
"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
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"The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible."
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Ahmed Chalabi
"The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible."
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"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
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Colin Powell
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
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"But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe."
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Romano Prodi
"But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe."
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"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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Ayatollah Khomeini
"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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