Famous quotes by Statesmans

"Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow"

Roy Hattersley, Statesman

"Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance"

Roy Hattersley, Statesman

"They missed a great opportunity to shut up"

Jacques Chirac, Statesman

"Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back"

Zhu Rongji, Statesman

"Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide"

Hun Sen, Statesman

"National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction"

Jacques Chirac, Statesman

"What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible"

Cao Cao, Statesman

"I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me"

Cao Cao, Statesman

"There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends"

Silvia Cartwright, Statesman

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

Lord North, Statesman

"Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force"

Lord North, Statesman

"Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"Free Tibet before free trade"

Zhu Rongji, Statesman

"We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"If geography is prose, maps are iconography"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA"

Ibrahim Rugova, Statesman

"Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future, and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts"

Hun Sen, Statesman

"Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England, you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine"

Stanley Baldwin, Statesman

"I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason"

Stanley Baldwin, Statesman

"Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here"

Daniel Ortega, Statesman

"If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations"

Ehud Barak, Statesman

"He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work"

Norman Tebbit, Statesman

"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty"

Fisher Ames, Statesman

"There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference"

John Bolton, Statesman

"Any political system can commit mistakes, and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve"

Ahmed Chalabi, Statesman

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