Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Lebanese statesman Emile Lahoud.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Émile Jamil Lahoud is a Lebanese politician who served as the 16th president of Lebanon from 1998 to 2007. His main foreign-policy achievement was to end the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon in May 2000, which was occupied since 1982. He downplayed sectarianism and rearmed the Lebanese army, with help from Syria. However factionalism and Lebanon's politics undermined his strength.
The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.
Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.
Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.
People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.
There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.