Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Statesmen - Page 17

We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.

Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony.

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.

Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

Thailand was built on compassion.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.

Learn to obey before you command.

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

I hate guns.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.