Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Barbadian statesman Owen Arthur.
Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Owen Seymour Arthur, PC was a Barbadian politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Barbados from 6 September 1994 to 15 January 2008. He is the longest-serving Barbadian prime minister to date. He also served as Leader of the Opposition from 1 August 1993 to 6 September 1994 and from 23 October 2010 to 21 February 2013.
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.
For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.
Often, we are too slow to recognize
how much and in what ways we can assist each other
through sharing expertise and knowledge.