Korea Quotes - Page 14

• The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent or default - have followed different paths since 1989. We stayed mostly the same as they became hypopowers that, to take a small example, would and could do nothing should a madman in Korea wish to kill millions.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Commitment, Years, Enemy

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• All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hard Work, Errors, Accountability

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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• I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

  Thomas E. Donilon

  Doors, People, Broken

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• I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

  Dennis Rodman

  Cutting, Leader, Calling

  Twitter post from May 07, 2013

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• Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Business, Years, Political

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• At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him. . . But there are many others who are away from their homes and their loved ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of us, at home, at war, wherever we may be, are within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray. We should all pray.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Home, Men

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• South Korea's investment in Russia has not been smooth, ... Korea had planned to carry out 126 investment projects worth 273 million, but in reality, only 91 projects worth 137 million are under way.

  Vladimir Putin

  Reality, Russia, Way

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• We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Bombs, Plutonium, Knows

  "North Korea an 'imminent threat'". Interview with Christiane Amanpour, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2005.

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• Our challenge is much more pervasive than it would be if we were just facing one enemy in one place. [Instead there is] the Middle East, Iraq, North Korea, Iran. There's a relatively long list that we believe are linked to the al Qaeda network in the Philippines, in Indonesia and in Yemen and other places. That makes it very clear that this is a global network.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Iran, Iraq

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• I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

  Mike Huckabee

  Thinking, United States, Sometimes

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• North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.

  Richard Armitage

  Crazy, Insane, Nations

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• Many of the countries outpacing the United States in the deployment of high speed Internet services, including Canada, Japan and South Korea, have successfully combined municipal systems with privately deployed networks to wire their countries, .. As a country, we cannot afford to cut off any successful strategy if we want to remain internationally competitive.

  John McCain

  Country, Cutting, Successful

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• President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate.

  David Letterman

  Japan, President, India

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• North Korea is the country that the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz came from.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Country, Humor

  "Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed". Documentary, Comedy, June 10, 2006.

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• Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other spots, no one in the world today would define socialism that way. That will never come back.

  Milton Friedman

  Couple, Mean, Government

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Team, Europe, Careers

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• I think, in the long term it's in the goal of everyone to see a unified Korea that actually provides for the people of North Korea the kind of life that they need.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

  Tony Abbott

  Japan, Long, Important

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Truman left in the middle of an unpopular war, a war of choice. Truman didn't have to go into South Korea. And he was reviled and ridiculed for the stalemate that resulted. Now, he's seen as one of the great presidents of the 20th century.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Choices, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't come from a particularly musical family. My mother learned a bit of piano in Korea. When I was three, I apparently climbed up on our upright piano and started picking Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star out.

  Charlie Albright

  Mother, Stars, Piano

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• What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Sacrifice, Two

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• In spring training I'm in every newspaper (in Korea) every day. In the regular season, they watch it on TV.

  Hee-seop Choi

  Spring, Training, Watches

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• Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.

  Sam Hamill

  Farewell, Moon, Simple

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• North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Bird, Singing, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he calls him Dear Mr Secretary. Have you ever noticed that? Why is that? Because he's not the president of North Korea, he's the head of the Communist Party, the North Korean Workers' Party and he's the head of the Army. He's not head of the state. The head of the state is his father, who's been dead for 15 years.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Father, Party, Writing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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