Federation Quotes

• Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Levels, Economic

  Source: www.rt.com

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• 25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in one state; the Soviet Union has traditionally been called Russia, the Soviet Russia, and it was the great Russia. Then the Soviet Union suddenly fell apart, in fact, overnight, and it turned out that in the former Soviet Union republics there were 25 million Russians. They used to live in one country and suddenly found themselves abroad. Can you imagine how many problems came out?

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, People

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• Nowadays, there are plans to separate the Baltic states from the common power system of the former Soviet Union and to integrate them into the European system. What does it mean for us in practice? In practice, it means that a number of zones will emerge between several regions of the Russian Federation, where we will have no power transmission lines, since previously we used to have a loop transition through the Baltic countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Mean, Practice

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.

  Vladimir Putin

  Citizens, Humans, Human Beings

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

  Vladimir Putin

  United States, May, Strange

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out" by Harrison Koehli, www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

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• The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation.

  Barack Obama

  Would Be, Cypriots, Interest

  Source: time.com

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• Yet our interests, the interests of the Russian Federation, include the normalisation of relations with Japan, which is not at the bottom of the agenda. The whole range of what will be proposed for a solution, the entire range of matters related to the normalisation of our relations and what that would bring after normalisation, this is the whole range of issues to be discussed and decided, and those decisions should be of a practical nature.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Issues, Decision

  Source: www.rt.com

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• However, personally, I see this as not having the right to abuse this trust [among the citizens of Russia and Japan], and any decision we reach should correspond to the national interests of the Russian Federation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Japan, Decision

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to do), there should be a mixed population with equal rights, the same rights for the Arab and the French populations, as well as all the other races living there.

  Catherine Camus

  Rights, Race, Trying

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• I'm as proud and assertive in my Quebec identity as any Quebecer. I believe it's to Quebec's advantage to be part of the Canadian federation. But I will be extremely strong and forceful in defending Quebec's interests within Canada.

  Philippe Couillard

  Strong, Believe, Identity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

  Graeme Murphy

  Anniversary, Australia Day, 50th Birthday

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• I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.

  Rowan Williams

  Running, Long, Church

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• Looking at the map of the Russian Federation, one can see a country covering mostly northern areas; today more than 70 percent of our territory is or can be referred to as northern, if not the Far North. We have a rather small warm Black sea strip in the South and - to tell the truth - quite a few regions with a hospitable warm climate.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Sea, Black

  Source: www.rt.com

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• As far as I know, Russians are the first among tourists going to Turkey; last year three million Russians visited that country, although its climate zone is almost the same as the one of the Black sea region. Therefore, we have had an important task to develop an infrastructure in this region of the Russian Federation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Years, Sea

  Source: www.rt.com

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• It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism — the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Agreement, Perfect, Liberty

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

  Gerald Celente

  Mafia, Imf, Lasts

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• I am happy to announce that we have reached an agreement on the question of transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Agreement, Regions

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• A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

  Leon Krier

  Numbers, Cities, Limits

  "The City Within the City" by Leon Krier, zeta.math.utsa.edu. November 1977.

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• The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'

  Mitt Romney

  Teacher, Children, Attitude

  "'Who's Killing Philly Public Schools?': Daniel Denvir on Plan for School Closings, Privatization". www.truth-out.org. May 25, 2012.

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• There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.

  Jean Monnet

  Country, Strong, Europe

  Speech to the French National Liberation Committee, August 5, 1943.

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• AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

  Judy Woodruff

  States, Employee, County

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• The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  People, Political, Determined

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• We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations with the Papacy. One ought to try to create a true European federation respectful of each nationality.

  Ugo Cavallero

  Country, Trying, Three

  "All Or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941-1943". Book by Jonathan Steinberg, p. 67, 2002.

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• The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.

  Peter Sagal

  Sports, Winter, Ice

  "Lightning Fill In The Blank". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 2, 2015.

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• I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.

  Vaclav Havel

  Believe, Character, Rights

  "Le Monde" Newspaper, April 29, 1999.

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