International Quotes - Page 21

• The evidence about Saddam having actual biological and chemical weapons, as opposed to the capability to develop them, has turned out to be wrong. I acknowledge that and accept it. I simply point out, such evidence was agreed by the whole international community, not least because Saddam had used such weapons against his own people and neighbouring countries.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Iraq, People

  "Blair's speech" by Andrew Sparrow, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 29, 2004.

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• WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Peace, War

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)”, p.217, e-artnow

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• I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Witty, New York, Real

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• Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, Politician, Scientist

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• The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens - and honor its own previous commitments - by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions.

  Jimmy Carter

  Commitment, Law, Government

  Jimmy Carter (2006). “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”, Simon and Schuster

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• To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

  Clare Short

  Rights, Roots, Effort

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• The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Poverty, Enabling

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• The drama of AIDS threatens not just some nations or societies, but the whole of humanity. It knows no frontiers of geography, race, age or social condition(calling) for a supreme effort of international cooperation on the part of government, the world medical and scientific community and all those who exercise influence in developing a sense of more responsibility in society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Drama, Responsibility, Exercise

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• We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

  David Vitter

  Leadership, Strong, Louisiana

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• Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

  John Mott

  Leadership, Demand, Relation

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• Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

  Chuck Hagel

  Leadership, Mean, Opportunity

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• The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  America, Greatest Fear, Average

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• Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Long, People, Body

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• A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Responsibility, Agency, Voice

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• During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  War, Years, Two

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• I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond.

  Val Guest

  Stars, Know How, Eighteen

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• Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

  Al Gore

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Al Gore's speech on Iraq, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2002.

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• Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wmd, Organization, Iraq

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• Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

  Jan Smuts

  Kings, War, Promise

  Jan Christian Smuts (1952). “Jan Christian Smuts: a biography”, William Morrow & Company

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• But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.

  Malcolm X

  Law, Tyrants, Use

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• International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.

  George W. Bush

  Law, Tyrants, Tyranny

  George W. Bush Discusses Year-End Accomplishments in Cabinet Meeting, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 11, 2003.

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• Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

  Pat Buchanan

  House, Breakfast, Bills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my view, if you have good or bad technique, it doesn't matter. But you will survive if you can adjust your game at international level, you are mentally strong, you know your strengths and how to score runs.

  Virender Sehwag

  Running, Strong, Views

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• Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.

  Tom Clancy

  Girl, Mean, Men

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• Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, was nominated by President Bush in 2003 and plans to start the job any day now. ... Prior to heading FEMA, Brown spent the 90's as a commissioner -- this is true -- of the International Arabian Horse Association. I guess he stands out because most Bush appointees are beholden to Arabian people.

  Jon Stewart

  Horse, Jobs, People

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