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Quotes by Statesman
"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
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"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
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"It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it."
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"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may."
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"I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy."
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"I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it."
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"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."
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"We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy."
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"Faith is of no evil in absence of strength. Faith and strength, both are essential to accomplish any great work."
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"What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted."
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"France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions."
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"I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have."
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"I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America."
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"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so."
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"The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it."
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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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"Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy."
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"The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country."
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"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems."
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"I can prove anything by statistics except the truth."
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"It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity."
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"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business."
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"The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination."
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"Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history."
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"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
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"What happens in you is more important than what happens to you."
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"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets."
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"You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there."
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"Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions."
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