Top 793 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Presidents - Page 2

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

One of the reasons why a number of people have decided to go into the opposition were the reforms we carried out.

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

We hear warmongering every day, every day we hear threats and attempts to scare us. [...] We don't want war and never wanted, but at that time [i.e. during Nagorno-Karabakh war] we had to defend our Motherland. If the time comes again, this time our blow will be final and deadly.

I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities.

We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.

Germany must remain Germany.

The world is a big place, and there are many paths that lead to success. This applies to both political and economic concepts. For this reason, we see no need to stoically pursue the Chinese, American or French way. But we have socialism in common with China.

If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.

It is very helpful to have a partner on whom you can rely in any situation. But the problem starts because some people don't like it that one twin would be president and the other prime minister.

We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in formulating and implementing the Party's policy.

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

A standing army is like a standing member. It's an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results

Dictatorships don't always die when the dictator leaves office.

Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity.

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.

There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice

The international community faces ever growing phenomena that transcend borders. I am specifically referring to terrorism, transnational organized crime, the global drug problem, corruption, traffic in persons, sexual exploitation, trafficking of children and adolescents, and smuggling of arms, among others.

I would rather have a country run like hell by Filipinos than a country run like heaven by the Americans, because however a bad Filipino government might be, we can always change it.

Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.

A nation is born into freedom on the day when such a people, moulded into a nation by a process of cultural evolution and sense of oneness born of common struggle and suffering, announces to the world that it asserts its natural right to liberty and is ready to defend it with blood, life, and honor.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an #? education .

I fight because international law recognises my right.

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

America is very important economically. It's certainly, by far, the most important country in the world.

Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time.

We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times

It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how errors have got mixed up with truth, have delayed the knowledge of it, and retarded its progress; and, after having followed the various epochs and traversed every climate, finally to contemplate the edifice founded on the labours of successive centuries and of various nations.

I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations.

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.

Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy.

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

As a whole, the election process before the election and on the day of election was successful, and I think Azerbaijan had normal and democratic elections.

Man has gone to the moon but he does not yet know how to make a flame tree or a bird song. Let us keep our dear countries free from irreversible mistakes which would lead us in the future to long for those same birds and trees.

We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.

People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of civic responsibilities. As a rule their highest aim is to live at the expense of the ratepayers. Consequently, it would be a decided gain if they all took it into their heads to emigrate. When they go abroad they are thrown on their own responsibilities and have to work whether they like it or not.

We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations will heavily depend. Serbia may be a small country yet, through partner cooperation with others, it can confront all challenges and address problems that overcome its capacities.