South Quotes - Page 37

• There must be no abuse of people and they did ask that the South Africa Government should give them whatever support they needed to make sure that they have a proper legal process, proper detention, no abuse of people during interrogation and all of that. And so, we agreed.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Government, Giving, People

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The situation in Georgia is determined by the breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia. While we must acknowledge the reforms initiated by Mikheil Saakashvili that drastically lowered the level of corruption and authoritarian structures in the Georgian state, under the above-mentioned circumstances, the ruling elite must keep a firm grip on the country.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Reform, Levels

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• It is rather difficult to envisage a scenario that could change the domestic situation in the countries of the South Caucasus without solving the problems constantly hindering normal cooperation in the region.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Normal, Cooperation

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be "accused" of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.

  Garry Kasparov

  Iran, Doe, Looks

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• [Vladimir] Putin intended to provide for a broad safety corridor [for the Olympic Games]. That's why Abkhazia was a more important and desired goal of Russian aggression against Georgia than South Ossetia, which merely served as a pretext. Concerns mainly centered on the Crimea.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Safety, Goal

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• I would not draw definitive conclusions from that. If we look at South and North Korea, it is pretty hard to believe that we're dealing with the same people. Half of the people are forced to live in a concentration camp; the other have created one of the most dynamic economies in the world.

  Garry Kasparov

  Believe, Korea, People

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• We can't attribute a long history of democratic traditions to Japan, either, but today Japan boasts a fully-fledged democracy in which governments change according to democratic procedures. It's no coincidence that the Taiwanese, Japanese, and South Korean economies are among the most innovative in Asia.

  Garry Kasparov

  Government, Japan, Long

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there were all types. That was my inspiration.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Mom, Dad, Inspiration

  Source: somedayprods.com

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• When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.

  Dick Gregory

  White, Laughing, Chicago

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I grew up in Georgia and I think if you're raised in the South it's where a lot of the war was fought, and it's just more present in the sort of psyche of the South. So I've always just been interested and sort of fascinated by [Civil War].

  Ed Helms

  War, Thinking, Georgia

  Source: movies.about.com

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• It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way that...I have no intention of making fun of re-enactors. I think it's more just a celebration of their passion and enthusiasm, which is so infectious and maybe at times a little misguided.

  Ed Helms

  Fun, War, Passion

  Source: movies.about.com

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• When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.

  Mike Tyson

  Crazy, Europe, America

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• I grew up in the South where there's discrimination, and when I witnessed the judgment around me, I always thought someone needs to stick up for not just the LGBT community but any outsider, anybody that wasn't the mold in Texas.

  Demi Lovato

  Lgbt Community, Texas, Sticks

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Years, Southern

  Interview With Cory Doctorow, craphound.com. November 23, 1999.

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• There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

  William Gibson

  America, Culture, Violence

  Source: craphound.com

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• We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south.

  Paul Ryan

  Epidemics, America, Drug

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [People] didn't vote for me because they thought I was a racist and if you look at my campaign literature it is not much different than a lot of Republican literature and some conservative Democrats in the South.

  David Duke

  People, Different, Campaigns

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• I ordered all of these sets [ from South Korea] and I'm thinking to myself, this is ridiculous. We don't even make televisions here [in U.S].

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Korea, Television

  Source: www.economist.com

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• [We] mention the South China Sea, we mention North Korea, South Korea, we mention Ukraine. We could mention five others. Yemen, and this, and that. How many places can we do this? We have a country that is a debtor nation, we have an infrastructure that is crumbling all over the place, 60% of the bridges we have in this country are in trouble.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Ukraine, Korea

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Book, Reading, Childhood

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

  John Darnielle

  Years, Dating, Conservative

  "Lyrical Genius John Darnielle Wrote a Scary New Novel". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2017.

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• The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!

  John Darnielle

  Strong, Rights, Voice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Want, Messages

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• South Africa is regarded as being an extraordinarily important country - not just for South Africa, but for Southern Africa, for the BRICS, working now in a new way in which power is becoming more shared - thankfully.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Southern, Important

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• I don't like a bipolar or a unipolar world. I like a multipolar world but on many occasions people have been surprised that South Africa has not seemed, internationally as well as internally, to take a decision that affirms the true values of your Constitution and the vision of those who were there at the beginning - Madiba himself and others.

  Mary Robinson

  People, Decision, Bipolar

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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