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Now that Iran has entered into production of nuclear fuel on an industrial [scale], there will be no limit on the production of nuclear fuel in Iran.
Gholam-Reza Aghazadeh
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Over the postwar years, we have granted to the elite and secret police within our system vast new powers over the lives and liberties of the people. At the request of the trusted and respected heads of those forces, and their appeal to the necessities of national security, we have exempted those grants of power from due accounting and strict surveillance.
Hale Boggs
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Passing laws and creating bureaus cannot add one jot to human happiness; … governments habitually engage in aggression, grand larceny, cheating, lying, counterfeiting, bullying, meddling and other pursuits immediately recognized, in the private sphere, as nasty and immoral. Why don't people compare political promises with government results?
Roger MacBride
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At the present stage, the historic function of the Soviet Armed Forces is not restricted merely to their function in defending our motherland and the other socialist countries. In its foreign policy activity the Soviet state actively and purposefully opposes the export of counter-revolution and the policy of oppression, supports the national liberation struggle, and resolutely resists imperialist aggression in whatever distant region of our planet it may appear. The party and Soviet Government rely on the country's economic and defense might in fulfilling these tasks... The development of the external functions of the socialist armies is a natural process. It will continue.
Andrei Grechko
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... The ultimate test of this agreement will be a test of blood... If it becomes clear that they [the Palestinians] cannot overcome terror, this will be temporary accord and... we will have no choice but to abrogate it... And if there is no choice, the IDF will return to the places it is about to leave in the upcoming months.
Yossi Beilin
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I am not a big banyan tree; I am a less green bush, the more you cut, the more I grow
Girija Vyas
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Occupiers have a role in spreading insecurity and terror in Iraq to justify their illegitimate presence there.
Hashemi Shahroudi
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The Arabs were Germany's natural friends... They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in a war, not only negatively in the commission of acts of sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the formation of the Arab Legion. In this struggle, the Arabs were striving for the independence and the unity of Palestine, Syria and Iraq...
Haj Amin al-Husseini
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It's a great honour for me; it's such an important job.
Yvette Cooper
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But I must not go on singling out names. One must not be a name-dropper, as Her Majesty remarked to me yesterday.
Norman St John-Stevas
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It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing which the Gestapo cannot solve. Regarded in this way we are, if a joke is permitted, looked upon as a cross between a general maid and the dustbin of the Reich.
Reinhard Heydrich
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Resistance does not just mean sending some martyrdom-seeker to Tel Aviv.... If resistance meant nothing more than bearing arms and making a big fuss – this would not be resistance, but suicide.
Jibril Rajoub
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I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.
Mohammed Omar
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Government has an obligation to protect its citizenry.
Carl Kruger
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If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition.
Bob Richards
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It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.
Mark Foley
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I'm a media tart. You tell me one politician that's not a media tart, tell me one that's not.
Peter Beattie
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One thing is clear,... A proximity to the people who are willing to take on responsibility, who are everywhere in our country and not just in politics, will be my main mission. I want to be active in inviting these people to take on responsibility and not just stand around as spectators and critical observers of public life.
Joachim Gauck
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I tell the Iranians that if they hear from people here or there that pictures of Ayatollah Khamenei are hung in Iraqi homes, it is a lie.
Iyad Jamal Al-Din
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You know, when people have no meaning in their lives, they begin to do things that sometimes can be totally crazy.
John Kasich
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I want to govern provincially no more. I want national independence. […] I took time for this decision because I know all the perils of this mission. I want to ask you to struggle also in order that our country can be born in a close future.
Bernard Landry
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I am king of my own little island, and that's all I've ever wanted to be.
Joseph Roberts Smallwood
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I will be sad if I either look up or down after my death and don't see my son fast asleep on the same benches on which I have slept.
Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow
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And 'speak truth unto power'? What does this mean? It means giving your best advice to superiors based on the best information available and objective analysis even when you know it may not be music to their ears.
Anson Chan
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The liberal, emphasizing the civil and property rights of the individual, insists that the individual must remain so supreme as to make the state his servant.
Wayne Morse
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