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Quotes by Statesman
"Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth."
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"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways."
40
"When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands."
40
"To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace."
40
"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
40
"Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up."
40
"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."
40
"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."
Vote,
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"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation."
40
"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."
40
"90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world."
40
"There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart."
40
"We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam."
40
"We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make."
40
"The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."
40
"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination."
40
"To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny."
40
"He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise."
40
"The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed."
40
"Manpower is the most valuable asset and unless it is organized and trained, it is a waste. We want first-class political men, first-class administrators, first-class soldiers."
40
"You cannot function in an unction you don't take action on."
40
"I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election."
40
"Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
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"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
40
"The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power."
40
"The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests."
40
"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
39
"Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered."
39
"All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake."
39
"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
39
"It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security."
39
"There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government."
39
"If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory."
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