Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Statesmen - Page 2

You won't hear from me again.

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

A week is a long time in politics.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance.

Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein . . . Women want total freedom or rather - to call things by their names - total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

To Mahatma Gandhi, the key to India's progress was the development of its villages. In his unified vision, education, agriculture, village industry, social reform all came together to provide the basis for a vibrant rural society free from exploitation and linked to the urban centres as equals. Our planning incorporates this basic insight.

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.

Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

There is more that unites us than divides us.

The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.

I am my own woman.

If everything is very important, then nothing is important.

The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.

We know we are on the right path. Our journey is not finished, but we have come a long way.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.