President Quotes

The road to our country's development will, therefore, depend on the progress of our states. Yet, they have to have a national vision; Unless they are firm in their resolve, our country would not be able to reach its rightful place in the comity of nations. India's federal structure is a basic feature of our constitution... (It) represents unity in diversity. While performing their duties, civil servants would have to respect this aspect.

Pranab Mukherjee

Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

The drug trade does not function well with a strong state, or a healthy state. It tries to corrupt the police force, it tries to corrupt the judiciary, and the executive. And drug trafficking thrives in a weak state.

Yemen is an essential partner of the United States of America and the international community in combating terror.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.

If today is Children's Day, yesterday I said that child... the children's day is mother's day, father's and teachers', but is also the day of the animals. Whenever you look at a child, there is always a hidden figure, which is a dog behind, which is something very important.

It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits...

The confrontation would be better and cheaper for us than to sign that we accept U. N. forces in Darfur.

I ask Congressmen why they have such close relations with Armenia, and they say that the Armenian Diaspora gives them a lot of money. Is that corruption or not?

The exploiters' power is to oppress the people. Our power is the power of the people.

I offer my noble respects to the heroic Korean people who, despite the difficult living conditions caused by life-threatening sanctions and blockade, have firmly trusted, absolutely supported and dynamically implemented our Party's line of simultaneously promoting the two fronts.

Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.

Yoweri Museveni

Turkmenistan has always welcomed the expansion of relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran in all areas, and our independent policy in the world is conducive to the expansion of relations and cooperation between the two countries.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov

I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Hair blows in the wind.
After years there is still wind.
Sadly no more hair.

Herman Van Rompuy

The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like an 'Animal Farm' where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?

It is difficult to be president of Brazil because it is a president that has less authority. I am fulfilling a mission from God.

I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. … Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

Myself, the government and people of Nigeria are inspired by the United States of America's achievement and the principles which guide it.

What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.

There must be a solidifying of our populations into one compact whole. The various indigenous tribes must be brought into the body politic, taught the duties and responsibilities of civilized government. Into them must be infused or inculcated an appreciative knowledge and understanding of hopes and aspirations of the Fathers who established this nation. There should be no words known in our National Vocabulary of Speech or even of thought as "Americo-Liberian"; "the country-man"; "the new-comer"; "the Sierra Leone man"; or such like terms of designating the various elements of our population.

Charles D. B. King

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.

There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish citizenship foremost this man will be chosen democratically by the people.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan