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Quotes by Statesman

"I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it."

"If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist."

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

"I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside."

"Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it."

"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."

"The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs."

"If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war."

"The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it."

"Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind."

"It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline."

"I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell."

"The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation."

"Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief."

"Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland."

"Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity."

"If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse."

"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."

"Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral."

"It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones."

"I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation."

"But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries."

"I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet."

"Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others."

"Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it."

"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't."

"Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past."

"The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys."

"In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda."

"Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual."

"It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you."

"The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans."
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"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."

"Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers."

"Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences."

"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."

"Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions."
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