Famous quotes by Statesmans

"I am the supreme warlord; I do not wage war in order to achieve definite military objectives, but to destroy the enemy"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"The people I am most afraid of are the clever ones. They have so many brains that they can think of mischief against me"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

"When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land: those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property, and easy access to markets"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I am against intervention by a foreign power against us"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way, but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"The opportunities which the present position open up for a lasting and radical solution of the most vexing problem of the Jewish state are so far-reaching as to take one's breath away"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room, perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

"Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

"If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

"The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom, and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men"

Nguyen Van Thieu, Statesman

"You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do"

Nguyen Van Thieu, Statesman

"I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that"

John Howard, Statesman

Page 45 of 96

See the complete list of statesman people