International Quotes - Page 19

• But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Meaningful, Country, Community

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• There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Islamic, Conflict, Traditional

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• This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.

  Michael Phelps

  Swimming, Gold, Firsts

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• Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, Military, Goal

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• There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  President, Boards, Puppets

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• But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Life, Two, Promise

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• The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Keys, Government, Iraq

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• Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by force, with effective projects and new approaches in order to protect their dignity, to improve the quality of their life and to face the challenges that are emerging from modern forms of persecution, oppression and slavery.

  Pope Francis

  Reality, Order, Leader

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• All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

  Amiri Baraka

  Thinking, People, Terrorism

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• Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

  Michael Jackson

  Ignorance, Hatred, Prejudice

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• On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence

  Kofi Annan

  World, Violence, Conflict

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• More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and future tyrants and assorted international criminals. This is virtually unknown to the American public, thanks to the freest media on earth.

  John Pilger

  Media, Tyrants, Training

  "The great charade". www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2002.

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• This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

  Christopher Rice

  Thrillers, Genre, Thriller Genre

  "Killer Company" by Christopher Rice, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2014.

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• People all over the world now are following our election. And according to a new international poll that just came out, I think this came out a few hours ago, this is true, people in Canada want Barack Obama to be the next U.S. president. That's what they're saying. In Canada, yeah. That makes sense, because Obama has the support of Canada's anti-war voters, as well as Canada's black guy. He is very excited.

  Conan O'Brien

  War, Thinking, People

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• Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

  Carson Kressley

  Skills, Television, Humour

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• When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Turkeys, Backlash

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• It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

  Irrfan Khan

  Giving, Quality, Actors

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• International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stars, Rocks, Rock Star

  "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

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• We'll eradicate Twitter. I don't care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic. There is now a scourge that is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society. They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife. I said, let's solve this.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Lying, Media, Community

  "Feathers Fly As Top Turkish Officials Square Off Over Twitter Ban". "The Two-Way", www.npr.org. March 21, 2014.

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• I wouldn't join the International Criminal Court. This is a body based in The Hague where unaccountable judges, prosecutors, could pull our troops, our diplomats up for trial. And I wouldn't join. And I understand that in certain capitals of, around the world that that wasn't a popular move. But it's the right move not to join a foreign court that could, where our people could be prosecuted.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, People, Judging

  "Robert Fisk on the Presidential Debate, Iraq, Palestine and the International Criminal Court". www.democracynow.org. October 01, 2004.

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• What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War crimes are crimes which happen in war time. There is a confusion there. This is a crime against humanity because it is deliberate and intentional killing of large numbers of civilians for political or other purposes. That is not tolerable under the international systems. And it should be prosecuted pursuant to the existing laws.

  Benjamin B. Ferencz

  War, Numbers, Law

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• Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international system regulated by agreements and norms. Anything that deflates the concept of dominance is likely to drive down the frequency of fights between individuals and wars.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Fighting, Agreement

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• No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks. Worse, it would only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. Health-care workers who have fallen ill would not be able to get out for treatment, and the international health personnel needed to quell the outbreak would no longer be able to go in.

  Atul Gawande

  Country, Numbers, Ebola

  "The Ebola Epidemic Is Stoppable" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2014.

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• You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.

  Pat Buchanan

  Economic Inequality, Citizens, May

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• GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century.

  Naomi Klein

  Impact, Media, Style

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