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Quotes by Statesman

"We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience."

"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."

"We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough."

"Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation."

"It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer."

"I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."

"I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement."

"Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche."

"Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone."

"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."

"In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy."

"Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth."

"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."

"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."

"Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men."

"Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it."

"I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people."

"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life."

"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."

"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."

"Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives."

"The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail."

"The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role."


"Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies."

"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."

"This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people."

"Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse."

"The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order."

"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation."


"We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace."
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