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We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Day
Every Day
People
World
Win
Job
Beauty
Heights
Every
Our
Punched
Way
Our People
Triumph
Throughout
Course
Boxing
Won
Mount
Dominated
Mount Everest
Southeast
Titles
Asian
Games
International
Everest
Compete
Imaginable
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Government
Progress
Opportunity
Follows
Someone
Optimism
Infectious
Get
Irresistible
Just
Even
Started
We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Life
Terrorism
Fight
Our
Way
Threatens
Democratic
Sovereign
Decent
Compassionate
I stand in the way of no one's ambition. I only ask that no one stand in the way of the people's well being and the nation's progress.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
People
Progress
Nation
Ambition
Way
Only
No-One
Well
Well-Being
Being
Ask
Stand
Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Government
Generation
People
Achieve
Country
Looking
National
Setting
Ours
About
More
Prosperous
Beyond
Empowered
Content
Enable
Real
Conditions
Up
National Interest
Vested
Interest
Next
Deserve
Necessary
A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Job
President
Crisis
Must
Ready
Contingency
Any
Anytime
Anywhere
I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
Goh Chok Tong
Reading
Become
Writer
Child
Wanted
Enjoyed
One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.
Goodluck Jonathan
Peace
Celebrate
Will
One Thing
Feel
Know
Continuity
Thing
Nigerians
In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.
Goodluck Jonathan
Day
Every Day
School
Power
Shoes
Meal
Every
Crossed
Only
Never
Had
Rivers
Studied
Generator
Bags
Days
Were
Walked
Miles
Early
Early Days
Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.
Goodluck Jonathan
Doctors
Developed
Developed Countries
Countries
Leave
Reverse
Want
Engineers
Medical
Nigeria
I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering.
Goodluck Jonathan
Man
Vote
Commitment
Free
Community
Our
One-Man
Remains
Firm
Fair
Unwavering
Elections
International
Reassure
International Community
Credible
Nigerians
All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.
Goodluck Jonathan
Vote
Age
Voting
Will
Free
Duty
Convictions
Doubt
Our
No-One
Protect
Based
Right
Basic
Nigerians
Defend
Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.
Gough Whitlam
Hope
Government
You
Women
Men
Men And Women
Building
Believe
Appropriate
Mine
Bit
Minister
More
Remarks
Prime
Prime Minister
House
Make
Western
Australia
Than
Surviving
Substantial
Should
Apparently
Foundations
Oldest
Sydney
The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War II, three from each. The Ministry appointed on 5 December 1972 was composed entirely of ex-servicemen: Lance Barnard and me.
Gough Whitlam
Service
War
Me
World
Veterans
Men
Three
Seen
Active
Ministry
Composed
Entirely
Joined
Had
Caucus
December
Who
Many
Each
Appointed
World War
World War II
If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.
Gouverneur Morris
Character
Man
People
Speak
Will
Reputation
Distinguished
Some
Never
He
Fail
Continental
Prefer
Might
Elect
Should
Services
The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.
Guy Verhofstadt
World
Illusion
Idea
Clearly
Without
Being
Unite
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
Guy Verhofstadt
Life
Strength
Great
You
Enemy
Safety
Fire
Own
Conviction
Find
Wounded
Risk
Friends
Brave
Where
Your
Bring
We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.
Guy Verhofstadt
Heart
Protectionism
Want
Union
European
European Union
As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
Hamid Karzai
Hope
Country
Ambition
Every
Our
Give
Leaf
New
Afghan
Turns
Each
Now
I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
Hamid Karzai
Human Being
Think
Muslim
Human
Being
The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
Hamid Karzai
Work
War
Together
Political
Will
Become
Believe
Something
Only
Absence
Sincere
Terror
Won
Regional
Stake
Work Together
International
International Cooperation
Cooperation
I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.
Hamid Karzai
Terrorism
Never
Call
Insurgency
I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
Hamid Karzai
Good
Enemy
Neighbor
Would
See
Never
Prosperous
Well
Call
Doing
Stable
Interest
Request
Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.
Hamid Karzai
Terrorism
Eyes
Simple
Political
Past
Own
Criminals
Purposes
Gentlemen
Governments
Very
Ladies
In The Past
Unfortunately
Explanation
Certain
Used
Who
Gangs
Now
The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
Hamid Karzai
Will
Other
Later
Criminals
Guilty
Run
Bad
Hussein
Bad Ones
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Sinful
Also
Proven
Forever
Cannot
Capture
Found
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
Hamid Karzai
People
Our
Criminals
Our People
Destroyed
Afghanistan
Land
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