Famous quotes by Statesmans

"There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"Men do not shape destiny, destiny produces the man for the hour"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"I remember. How many minutes do I have left, President? About one, one minute"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is"

Philip Stanhope, Statesman

"But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village?"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say"

Geronimo, Statesman

"Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake"

Ayatollah Khomeini, Statesman

"We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists, while during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures"

Geronimo, Statesman

"Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

"My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

"Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible, and now we have an isolated case, which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned"

Ayatollah Khomeini, Statesman

"We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor"

Edward Everett, Statesman

"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life"

Cecil Rhodes, Statesman

"Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat"

John Selden, Statesman

"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it"

Edward F. Halifax, Statesman

"India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

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

Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman

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

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular, in the field of human intelligence"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN"

Sellapan Ramanathan, Statesman

"Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"You can change friends but not neighbours"

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Statesman

"It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble"

Howard Baker, Statesman

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