Statements Quotes - Page 25

• Mr. Obama at the UN said that the large nations should not trample small ones in pursuit of what he called "territorial ambition". These are curious statements coming from the American president at this time.

  Vijay Prashad

  Ambition, President, Curious

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statement that, "If Australia keeps going the way it is, it will finish up the poor, white trash of Asia." And he was right, because we were just going backwards.

  Bob Hawke

  White, Australia, Yew

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but that is not easily understood for people who think the way I used to think and believe what I used to believe.

  Byron Katie

  Depressing, Believe, Thinking

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript of a talk to a writers conference in Australia in 1996, where I had been asked to talk on "writers and intellectual responsibility" - a question that I said I found "puzzling," because I knew of nothing to say about it beyond truisms, though these were perhaps worth affirming because they are "so commonly denied, if not in words, then in consistent practice."

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Responsibility, Practice

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make because their words are weighed extremely carefully by other countries, and you have to create a continuity of seriousness and of credibility in order to be able to be taken seriously and get things done.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The minority vote is growing, which is part of the alarm of so many Republicans and why Trump constantly whipped up their alarm with his racist statements.

  David Remnick

  Alarms, Minorities, Racist

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave a false statement to Congress under oath, which is a felony. If we allow our officials to knowingly break the law publicly and face no consequences, we're instituting a culture of immunity, and this is what I think historically will actually be considered the biggest disappointment of the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Edward Snowden

  Disappointment, Thinking, Law

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Some months after [Keith Alexander] made that statement [Edward Snowden cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation], the new director of the NSA, Michael Rogers, said that, in fact, he doesn't see the sky falling. It's not so serious after all.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Nsa, Sky

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• I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great hypocrisy of that statement is that they are deliberately handcuffing the enforcement agency that oversees current law.

  Chris Murphy

  Agency, Law, Hypocrisy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Our government denies that terrorism is caused by Islamic doctrine. Now, that is true, and it is a declarative statement. It's not arguable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Islamic, Government, Doctrine

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

  Paul Virilio

  Military, Deception, Sun

  Source: ctheory.net

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• In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote a slim volume called The Prince. In that book he showed the powers that be how to control the people. That book is a statement: separate and rule, divide and conquer. That's five hundred years ago and it still works, because we allow ourselves to be lead around with holes through our noses.

  Maya Angelou

  Powerful, Book, Years

  Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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• [Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He'd talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, "Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you're going to be able to make some coherent statements, and so it's like you're vamping. And then people will gradually start to listen to you when this spot of logic shows up in this torrent of verbiage.

  Paul Laffoley

  People, Giving, Listening

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Technique

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• It is a statement to the obvious, however, that [Barack] Obama - of Obamacare - is the President of the United States, so I don't want people to have [unrealistic] expectations about what may actually become law with Obama - of Obamacare - in the White House. But we intend to keep our commitment to the American people.

  Mitch McConnell

  Commitment, Law, Obamacare

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• Note that there was no claim for these attacks [on 9/11]. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror.

  Edward Said

  Pieces, Demand, Silent

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• How you look is your statement, because it's a claiming of yourself.

  Alicia Keys

  Looks

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Donald Trump's habit of making offensive and outlandish statements will not bring Americans together.

  Marco Rubio

  Together, Offensive, Habit

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam was a consequence of political, diplomatic, and psychological factors more than military ones. That is a tribute to the ideas that he introduced in his life and thought.

  William J. Duiker

  Military, Ideas, Political

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• Courts in America seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a statement and do what's right.

  Donald Trump

  America, Justice, Political

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated then, just with the Nazis.

  John Carlos

  Thinking, Games, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

  Allard K. Lowenstein

  Clever, Thinking, People

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including Syria. The second one is not to turn Secretary-General office into a part or branch of the State Department of the United States.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Two, Office, Firsts

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states.

  Joseph Stalin

  Military, Men, Mind

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• I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.

  Morgan Parker

  Artist, Feelings, Messiness

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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