3410 quotes by statesmen for you to enjoy

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy. Jim Bolger

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I would like to remember all and be able to forgive everything - in due course! Johanna Siguroardottir

Remember Everything Would Able Like Course Due Forgive

There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term. Johanna Siguroardottir

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Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one. Johannes Rau

Interest Justified Certainly Asserting Copyright

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests. Johannes Rau

Good Think Also Sensitivity Interests Enforcing

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy. Johannes Rau

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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' John Abbott

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I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability. John Abbott

War is the science of destruction. John Abbott

War Science Destruction

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization. John Agyekum Kufuor

Education Will Higher Education Higher Take Mainstream Particularly Globalization Africa

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age. John Agyekum Kufuor

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. John Bolton

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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. John Bolton

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Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. John Bolton

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