Famous quotes by Statesmans

"The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"Once his wife goes to sleep, it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of Parliament"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... Everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam, the international community must act to enforce its will"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering"

Owen Arthur, Statesman

"The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man"

Lord Melbourne, Statesman

"The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated"

Franjo Tudjman, Statesman

"They do not walk in... the path of Christ"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"Venezuela has changed forever"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor. 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor. This is the road, well, the road to hell"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand"

Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Statesman

"A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries"

Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Statesman

"If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"

Oliver St. John, Statesman

"Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society"

Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Statesman

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