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Quotes by Statesman
"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy."
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"I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment."
37
"Building a nation requires not just bricks and mortar but the collective determination of its citizens."
37
"In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one."
37
"No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired."
37
"Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?"
Will,
37
"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."
37
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
37
"Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures."
37
"We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution."
37
"By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market."
37
"Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life."
37
"The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others."
37
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."
37
"The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries."
37
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."
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"Life, if well lived, is long enough."
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"When a person is in fashion, all they do is right."
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"Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization."
37
"Be good to others, that will protect you against evil."
37
"Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path."
37
"The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council."
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"There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000."
37
"I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters."
37
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues."
37
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
37
"Life is art and art is life."
37
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
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"The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture."
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