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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
Correct
Easier
Critical
Than
Much
There may be some people in the country who forget to perform their duty. You should set an example by doing your job with honesty and faithfulness.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
You
Honesty
People
Job
Some People
Example
Country
Duty
Some
Perform
Faithfulness
Doing
Forget
May
Should
Your
Who
Set
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
Boris Yeltsin
Communism
Sky
About
Idea
Pie
Talk
Just
It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.
Chen Shui-bian
Me
People
Problem
Important
Trial
Guilty
Charges
Details
Brought
True
Fair
Fair Trial
Understand
Were
Get
Not Guilty
Against
Why
Trump has no sense of shame.
Colin Powell
Sense
Shame
No Sense
Trump
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.
Condoleezza Rice
Politics
You
Debate
Values
Power
Draw
Those
Would
Fine
Sharp
Between
Polarized
Disaster
Academic
Devoted
Policy
Principled
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Line
Norms
American
May
Just
American Foreign Policy
Either
Realist
View
American Values
Who
Based
Universal
The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.
Condoleezza Rice
Day
Woman
Powerful
Come
Surprise
Position
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Daniel Webster
Power
Unlimited
Unlimited Power
Destroy
Involves
Tax
Necessarily
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster
Disagree
Only
Quarrel
Falsehoods
Truths
Themselves
Among
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
David Ben-Gurion
Independence
National
Anchor
Moral
Without
Intellectual
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.
David Ben-Gurion
Faith
People
Will
Country
Jews
France
Everywhere
Ours
Russia
More
Come
Territory
Built
Passport
Yemen
Than
America
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
Demosthenes
You
Man
Whatever
Must
Spirit
Proud
His
Conduct
Cannot
Mean
Your
Actions
Paltry
It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
Eamon de Valera
Strong
Indeed
Weak
Always
Just
Rewards
Justly
Acting
Hard
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund Burke
God
Man
Also
Ever
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro
Time
Revolution
Thieves
Real
Traitors
We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Justice
Trust
Corruption
People
Strong
Weed
Build
System
Out
Must
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic; reformism is basically optimistic.
Gough Whitlam
Government
Conservative
Conservatism
Conservative Government
Hopes
Optimistic
Survives
Expectations
Essentially
Pessimistic
Basically
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry Kissinger
Success
Matter
Few
Minds
Carried
Born
Policy
None
How
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Hearts
Any
Ingenious
Chance
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.
Henry Kissinger
War
Great
Country
Enough
Our
Slogans
See
Study
Great Tragedy
Without
Tragedy
Happened
Far
Really
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Using
Now
Away
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry Kissinger
Consequences
Responsible
Running
Leaders
Opinion
Opinion Polls
Polls
Public
Public Opinion
Public Opinion Polls
Actions
Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.
Henry Kissinger
Experience
Seen
He
Countries
Foreign
Foreign Countries
Came
Trump
Shocking
Office
Donald
Donald Trump
Them
Phenomenon
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Henry Kissinger
War
National
President
President Nixon
Unnatural
Nixon
Tried
Rather
Abstract
Emphasize
Make
Principles
National Interest
Than
Interest
Us
Vietnam
Required
Vietnam War
Why
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.
Hosni Mubarak
You
Rights
Youth
Law
Will
Before
Vain
Our
Hesitate
Punish
Those
Punishment
Telling
Charge
Responsible
Would
Martyrs
Like
Am
Go
Blood
Affirm
Hold
Anything
Fiercely
Who
Injured
Violated
Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.
Hugo Chavez
Respect
Mutual
Mutual Respect
Takes
Friends
Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.
John Bolton
You
Negotiation
Something
Advantage
Policy
Use
Your
Technique
I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.
John C. Calhoun
Positive
War
Good
Peace
Evil
Favor
Principle
Because
Am
Opposed
Regard
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