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Quotes by Statesman
"If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent."
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"From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality."
31
"I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education."
31
"Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy."
31
"The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered."
31
"We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency."
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"I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind."
31
"If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground."
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"Age is very important in the entertainment industry."
31
"NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women."
31
"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."
31
"Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising."
31
"I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history."
31
"Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant."
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"If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects."
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"Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests."
31
"Freedom is not an inheritance; it is a responsibility."
31
"We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq."
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"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."
31
"Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein."
31
"Today we must remove distinctions of high and low, rich and poor, caste or creed."
31
"Oh what times! Oh what standards!"
31
"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."
31
"The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy."
31
"He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies."
31
"We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme."
31
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know."
31
"Therefore, states are equal in natural rights."
31
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
31
"There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy."
31
"By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme."
31
"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."
31
"I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can."
30
"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."
30
"The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality."
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