Politician Quotes

These Yankee politicians are the lowest race of thieves in existence.

John Sparrow Thompson

The British had a poor record of retreating from colonies. There are more than ten years of transition period before our resumption of sovereignty. Will the British be irresponsible and "mess up" Hong Kong like comrade Deng Xiaoping said? We should be on guard. This is our major consideration for setting up the Joint Liaison Group. Surely, it will be beneficial for both countries, as other things may need to be settled by the two sides.

In a meeting with Xu Jiatun

If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

If we're going to have Kati Witt and 'The G. D. R. Show,' why not have a Nazi-era celebrity introducing 'The Third Reich Show'?

Trusting in the God of our fathers and confident that our cause is just, we will never surrender our heritage.

Beliefs seldom become doubts; they become ritual. They become intrinsic parts of the social heritage, themes of public celebration.

H. W. Schneider

It will be none of this summit's business to choose the titles for leaders, it is the business of this summit to see what we are going to do for the suffering people and masses in Africa.

I am excited that Tanzania is the only country out of 53 African nations to host the relay. This is a rare opportunity for our nation and a challenge for the government and the people to promote sports.

Ali Mohamed Shein

One must not be provoked when someone provokes him.

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.

Joseph R. Bartlett

In our warm climate, we have not got the same incentive to exertion and we may never be able to attain the same level of prosperity as Western people.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya

Enhanced interactions and cooperation between China and the United States serve the interests of our two peoples and are conducive to world peace and development. We should stay firmly rooted in the present while looking ahead to the future, and view and approach China-U.S. relations from a strategic and long-term perspective. We should, on the basis of the principles set forth in the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqués, respect each other as equals and promote closer exchanges and cooperation. This will enable us to make steady progress in advancing constructive and cooperative China-U.S. relations, and bring more benefits to our two peoples and people of the world.

What is happening and what may happen in the Nagorno-Karabakh and all the occupied lands is our internal affair. No international organization or country can interfere with our internal affair

Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in the professions and vocations in life; to be regulated on the capacity of children to learn, and not on the ability of parents to pay the costs. Training for life's work to be as much universal and thorough for all walks of life as has been the training in the arts of killing.

The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

The policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.

On terrorism

Mohammad Khatami

We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam.

What matters this or that reason? What we want is more of the trade which the Dutch now have.

We are now more Socialist in many ways than any other developed country outside the Communist bloc—in the size of the public sector, the range of controls and the telescoping of net income. And what is the result? Compare our position today with that of our neighbours in north west Europe—Germany, Sweden, Holland, France. They are no more talented than we are. Yet, compared with them, we have the longest working hours, the lowest pay and the lowest production per head. We have the highest taxes and the lowest investment. We have the least prosperity, the most poor and the lowest pensions. We have the largest nationalized sector and the worst labour troubles.

My mother is a great hunter — she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Every time we ignore the suffering of others or stand by and watch, we do not only act against our own interests but we violate a part of our humanity.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

Harold Washington

How could we justify to the rest of the world imposing martial law on our capital?

When the Beijing Party Commission had proposed imposing martial law after the Tiananmen Square protests

It is not our background that will count but our individual actions and initiatives. Education is the great leveller: irrespective of origin, it places everyone on the same footing.

Joni Madraiwiwi

I have long believed that women should play a much bigger part in our affairs.