Famous quotes by Statesmans

"There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

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

Edward Everett, Statesman

"We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories"

Cecil Rhodes, Statesman

"No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"I am the guardian of power, not its owner"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"I will not refuse to do something that I can do"

Edward Everett, Statesman

"They that govern the most make the least noise"

John Selden, Statesman

"No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man"

John Selden, Statesman

"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes"

Edward F. Halifax, Statesman

"Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it"

Edward F. Halifax, Statesman

"If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed, and trained Africans to fight other Africans"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"The work of Nigeria is not complete, for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be"

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Statesman

"In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer: how the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care"

Howard Baker, Statesman

"Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today"

Olusegun Obasanjo, Statesman

"In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles"

David Ben-Gurion, Statesman

"Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence"

Sellapan Ramanathan, Statesman

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises"

Demosthenes, Statesman

"That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources"

Silvia Cartwright, Statesman

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