South Quotes - Page 35

• It was a remarkable relationship. Margaret [Thatcher] and I had a love/hate relationship. She was always defending the South African regime and we had some terrible fights, including an enormous one in Canada.

  Bob Hawke

  Hate, Fighting, Canada

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• In fact, soon after that [South African sanctions], I was going on an official visit to the UK and Margaret Thatcher instructed every minister to clear the decks of any outstanding matters between us - Australia and the Brits. And she went out of her way to make sure that that was as successful a visit as it possibly could be.

  Bob Hawke

  Successful, Australia, Matter

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial but personal, providing experts and so on, to assist less developed members of the Commonwealth to get on the growing path. And that was part of what we did with South Africa.

  Bob Hawke

  Country, Numbers, Growing

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior people over there to assist the incoming South African regime to go about the economic plan.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, People, Economic

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• It was very much an Australian/New Zealand initiative to have a nuclear free South Pacific. And the Americans were very apprehensive about this. So, I explained to them that, as far as I was concerned, this didn't involve any diminution in our commitment to the ANZUS relationship. But David Lange took it further and he barred visits of US nuclear warships to New Zealand.

  Bob Hawke

  Commitment, Nuclear, Initiative

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• It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.

  Bob Hawke

  Would Be, Roles, Worthwhile

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• It [also] lives on its history, now, to some extent: its achievements [ of the Commonwealth] in Rhodesia and South Africa, which were enormous. And they'll live on that for some time, I guess. And there is still - I'm out of touch with it now, of course - but I still think there is a degree of cooperation at the economic level, to some extent, with the more developed countries helping the less developed. How substantial that is now, I simply am not versed.

  Bob Hawke

  Country, Thinking, Achievement

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• This movie [Don Jon] played at Sundance and South by Southwest and Berlin. And it just played - well...by the time it played at Toronto recently, it was already done. But getting to watch it with a thousand people is hugely informative.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  People, Watches, Done

  Source: www.grouchoreviews.com

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• If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

  Paul Keating

  Block, Land, Titles

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

  Nat Hentoff

  Father, England, Salesman

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.

  John F. Kerry

  Sea, America, Effort

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• In America, we're being hurt very badly by China with devaluation, with taxing us heavy at the borders when we don't tax them, with building a massive fortress in the middle of the South China Sea, which they shouldn't be doing.

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Sea, America

  Source: time.com

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• There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

  Desmond Tutu

  Levels, Poverty, South Africa

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I mean, on one hand Rex Tillerson is correct, there are no plans to change the One China policy. But certainly that policy is on the table if China doesn't also come to the table and work with us on trade, work with us on the South China Sea on what's happening there.

  Reince Priebus

  Mean, Hands, Sea

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Those poll ratings go south, I think you have a Republican Party ready to begin different kinds of hearings than [Jason] Chaffetz is unwilling to have.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Party, Thinking, Hearing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South.

  Barack Obama

  Race, Law, African American

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Effort, Black

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I think if you worked at the community level in Chicago and then a politician on the South Side of Chicago, and worked at the state level, then you're pretty familiar with all the variations of politics in the African American community and criticisms you may get. If you're not familiar with those or you don't have a thick enough skin to take it, then you probably wouldn't have gotten here.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Community, African American

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted, and what way may need to invent to help protect them.

  Bill Gates

  Girl, Understanding, Needs

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• I just want you to know that as a southerner, who actually saw discrimination and have no doubt it existed in a systematic and powerful and negative way to the people - great millions of people in the South, particularly, of America - I know that was wrong. I know we need to do better.

  Jeff Sessions

  Powerful, America, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm from South Carolina, so I know what it's like to be accused of being a conservative from the South. And I know that to some people that means more than you're a conservative from the South.

  Lindsey Graham

  Mean, People, South Carolina

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The idea of going down to Central or South American and taking ayahuasca and shitting my pants and puking in a circle of overprivileged white people is not my idea of a good time. That's not going to happen.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Ayahuasca, Circles, Ideas

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• My grandfather had asked me many times whether I'd like to come to South Carolina with him. He wanted to introduce me to our people down there and I didn't want to go. In those days, the South was still a place where black kids were lynched. Something horrible could happen to you. I've had that feeling my whole life.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Kids, People, Feelings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Taken, Thoughtful, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• On both of my major trips to North Korea, the leaders of the country made it plain that they want to make progress towards doing away with nuclear weapons and towards ending the longstanding, official state of war which persists between North Korea and the United States and South Korea, a war which has continued since the ceasefire over fifty years ago. That sort of thing happens quite often when we meet with people who are kind of international outcasts with whom the government of the United States won't meet.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, War, Korea

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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