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Quotes by Statesman
"The secret of our success is that we never, never give up."
42
"In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord."
Time,
42
"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."
42
"This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people."
42
"Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it."
42
"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."
42
"Solitude is better than the society of evil persons."
41
"There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age."
41
"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias."
41
"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."
40
"Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies."
40
"When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused."
40
"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."
40
"Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away."
40
"I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people."
40
"We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967."
39
"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."
39
"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."
39
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
39
"It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it."
39
"Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries."
38
"The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail."
38
"Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation."
38
"He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too."
38
"While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty."
38
"The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries."
38
"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"
37
"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand."
37
"It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history."
37
"I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people."
37
"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."
37
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