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Quotes by Statesman

"Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century."

"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba."

"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."
Want,

"We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future."

"Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest."

"We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration."

"The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts."
Will,

"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."

"2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve."

"It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people."

"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."

"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."

"Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing."

"Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point."

"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."

"As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise."

"The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice."

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

"We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too."

"Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders."

"Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse."

"The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject."

"If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom."

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

"A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage."

"You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable."

"Well, as you've said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it's an aspiration that is natural and that, I welcome."

"The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands."
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