Famous quotes by Statesmans

Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Statesman

"We're not perfect, but we do have democracy"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"Convinced as I am, and as I am from my government, that the world needs a new moral architecture over all, I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned, and I will not resign"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

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