Statesman Quotes
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Former Prime Minister of India
We are all the President's men.
Henry Kissinger
Former United States Secretary of State
Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
Bao Dai
Monarch
Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.
Donald Tusk
Former President of the European Council
The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Former President of France
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman statesman
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Hugo Chavez
Former President of the Republic of Venezuela
The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.
Nguyen Van Thieu
Former President of the Republic of Vietnam
Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.
Hugo Chavez
Former President of the Republic of Venezuela
I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration has hit more targets on a broader scale than the Nixon Administration ever did.
Henry Kissinger
Former United States Secretary of State
We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
Former Prime Minister of Norway
Nuclear arms kill many people all at once, but other weapons kill many people, little by little, every day, everywhere in the world.
Oscar Arias
Former President of Costa Rica
We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Former President of Iran
Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.
Henry Fox
Former Secretary at War of Great Britain
I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.
Henry Kissinger
Former United States Secretary of State
If the discussion centres on the essential principle of the E.U., the free movement of people and the ability to make decisions together, in that case, we don't want treaty change.
Francois Hollande
Former President of France
We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.
Howard Baker
Former White House Chief of Staff
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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