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Quotes by Statesman

"There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them."
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Ferdinand Marcos
"There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them."
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"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."
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Tran Duc Luong
"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."
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"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba."
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Kamisese Mara
"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba."
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"I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement."
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King Hussein I
"I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement."
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"They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse."
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Sitting Bull
"They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse."
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"We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again."
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Paul Kagame
"We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again."
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"The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy."
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Kamisese Mara
"The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy."
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"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."
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Kofi Annan
"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."
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"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."
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King Hussein I
"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."
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"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."
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Abu Bakr
"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."
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"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."
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Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
"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."
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"Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe."
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Ibrahim Rugova
"Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe."
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"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."
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Hamid Karzai
"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."
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"I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place."
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Sitting Bull
"I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place."
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"I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people."
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Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
"I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people."
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"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."
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Hugo Chavez
"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."
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"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."
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Baldwin Spencer
"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."
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"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."
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
"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."
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"God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible."
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King Hussein I
"God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible."
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"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."
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Hugo Chavez
"We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world."
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"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."
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Omar Bongo
"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."
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"Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing."
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing."
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"Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point."
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Abdoulaye Wade
"Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point."
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"Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort."
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Said Musa
"Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort."
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"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."
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Abdurrahman Wahid
"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."
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"I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five."
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Akhmad Kadyrov
"I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five."
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"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."
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Ibrahim Rugova
"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."
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"The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small."
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Nikita Khrushchev
"The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small."
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"The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice."
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Omar Bongo
"The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice."
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"The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States."
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Omar Bongo
"The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States."
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"Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind."
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King Hussein I
"Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind."
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"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."
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Sellapan Ramanathan
"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."
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"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."
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King Hussein I
"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."
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"Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse."
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Abu Bakr
"Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse."
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"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."
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Abdoulaye Wade
"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."
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"If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom."
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Kofi Annan
"If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom."
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"It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism."
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Ahmed Chalabi
"It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism."
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"What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?"
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Sitting Bull
"What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?"
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"Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment."
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Haile Selassie
"Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment."
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"I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today."
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
"I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today."
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"Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks."
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Stjepan Mesic
"Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks."
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"Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual."
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Abdoulaye Wade
"Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual."
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"Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end."
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Hun Sen
"Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end."
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"A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage."
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika
"A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage."
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"There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people."
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Viktor Yushchenko
"There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people."
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"You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable."
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Sellapan Ramanathan
"You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable."
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"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."
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Sellapan Ramanathan
"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."
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"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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Bhumibol Adulyadej
"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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"I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!"
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Omar Bongo
"I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!"
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"The first quality that is needed is audacity."
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Winston Churchill
"The first quality that is needed is audacity."
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