Politician Quotes

Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

Tonight, I also want to say that I'm also thinking about my mother and father. I know my mother would be completely over the moon about this. I think my dad would too. I'm sorry he couldn't see this. This really was his life's work but I can say this: I know how proud he'd be of the province we all love.

There cannot be a body of rules without a rationale, and this rationale constitutes the science.

George Cornewall Lewis

The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.

One culture, one civilization, one language, and one ethnic group.

The entire Negro world looks up to the American Negro, situated in the center of world reaction, to strip the cloak of false democracy from imperialist vultures and to expose their real predatory aims.

We as Muslims, We have to be honest. Islam has talked about trustiness, Are we known as truthful? Islam has talked about perfecting the work, are we known with that? Islam talked about tolerance, are we known as tolerants?

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

Arthur Lynch (politician)

Now, what we need is clever people that are not afraid of thinking deep, of getting their hands dirty, and of tackling great problems. If you feel like giving it a try and you meet some headwind howling that "everything is understood", that "understanding is not our job", or that it is "impossible" or "too diffcult", if some colleagues tell you that "physics does not deal with whys", that "understanding is just being Newtonian" or that "Thou shall not philosophize", if they throw invented norms to you, or if weaknesses and career prospects enter the discussion when the debate gets all heated up... you can always answer "Shut up and let me think!" —and get back to work.

Pablo Echenique Robba

If someone is being rude to a black person on the train, it is your job to challenge that person even if you do get punched in the face. We must always challenge behavior and speech which is othering certain groups.

Molly Scott Cato

Since I'm shouldering this commitment, I will do it with courage and without fear. Being the president of the Republic of China is no simple task.

You can't demand generational change on the one hand and expect 40 years of experience on the other.

Federica Mogherini

Flora with a liberal hand has scattered around us, her charming productions, they every where meet and allure us, enchanting us by their beauty, regaling us by their fragrance, and interesting us as much by their subservience to our luxuries and comfort, as to the necessary support and well-being of our life.

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.

Some political leaders were trying to spread the poison of regionalism and casteism for narrow political gain.

It has been thought, correctly and nicely, that everyone who is in peril will be helped. Practically this is implemented in the way that everyone who can say the word "asylum" is allowed to enter Europe and Finland, that word creates a subjective right to cross the border. Even for no proper reason, one gets a full investigation that lasts years, and if the preconditions for an asylum are not met, one can avoid coercive measures and thus stay in the country which he entered wrongly.

Sauli Niinistö

Since a trilateral negotiation between Chinese mainland, Japan and Taiwan cannot be realized at the time, the Taiwan government should hold a dialogue with the mainland so the two sides could jointly discuss issues related to defending China's inherent territory.

He gave himself diligently to mathematics, which he liked "vastly." "I believe they are useful," he writes, "and I am sure they are entertaining, which is alone enough to recommend them to me."

Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet

Every ounce of resources in our state should be focused on defeating the hidden enemy we all have in common: COVID-19.

India has been a friend of Sri Lanka for a long time. That is why I selected India for the first state visit after my election as the President

Maithripala Sirisena

There were five issues involved in Bharat Yatra—scarcity of proper food and drinking water, primary education, basic health amenities and fifth - social harmony. I had planned in my mind that we would work in 350 backward districts of the country. In order to perform this task I had decided to quit the post of the President of the Janata Party. But I could not do this. After the Yatra I became trapped in the politics of Opposition. That was my mistake.

Chandra Shekhar

The domain in which chemical synthesis exercises its creative power is vaster than that of nature herself.

Marcellin Berthelot

This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood...

Vladimir Bukovsky

Peace is a battle. Peace is never given freely, never acquired. Its conquest is the result of courage and of respect for others. It demands awareness and commitment from everyone. Peace is not the law imposed by the mighty, but that which is founded on equality and dignity of all peoples

Chandrika Kumaratunga

With certain limited exceptions, the laws of physical science are positive and absolute, both in their aggregate, and in their elements, — in their sum, and in their details; but the ascertainable laws of the science of life are approximative only, and not absolute.

Elisha Bartlett