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Quotes by Statesman

"I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences."
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Josefa Iloilo
"I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences."
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"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."
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Nelson Mandela
"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."
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"Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort."
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Said Musa
"Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort."
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"I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian."
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
"I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian."
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"Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts."
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Hun Sen
"Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts."
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"It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number."
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
"It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number."
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"It should be known that Israel is based on treachery."
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Bashar al-Assad
"It should be known that Israel is based on treachery."
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"Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children."
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Wilfrid Laurier
"Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children."
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"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."
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Winston Churchill
"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."
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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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"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."
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Anwar Sadat
"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."
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"We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach."
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Kjell Magne Bondevik
"We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death."
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Bao Dai
"In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death."
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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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"You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them."
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Bashar al-Assad
"You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them."
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"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
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Edmund Burke
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
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"We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration."
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Josefa Iloilo
"We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration."
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"Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased."
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Janez Drnovsek
"Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of "others" and "our" problems are being increasingly erased."
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"However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness."
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Tran Duc Luong
"However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness."
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"We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future."
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King Hussein I
"We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future."
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"One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot."
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Leonid I. Brezhnev
"One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot."
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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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"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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"Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity."
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Robert Mugabe
"Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity."
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"I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture."
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Moshe Katsav
"I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture."
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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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"Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation."
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Bashar al-Assad
"Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation."
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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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"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
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Winston Churchill
"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
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"When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame."
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Bashar al-Assad
"When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame."
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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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"I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could."
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Kamisese Mara
"I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could."
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"He has committed the crime who profits by it."
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Seneca
"He has committed the crime who profits by it."
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"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us."
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Sellapan Ramanathan
"You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us."
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"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
"I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas."
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"The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans."
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Robert Mugabe
"The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans."
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"In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order."
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Kamisese Mara
"In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order."
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"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
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Akhenaton
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
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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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"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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"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ."
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
"We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ."
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"Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups."
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Kamisese Mara
"Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups."
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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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"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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"Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it."
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King Hussein I
"Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it."
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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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