Federation Quotes

• Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Levels, Economic

  Source: www.rt.com

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• 25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in one state; the Soviet Union has traditionally been called Russia, the Soviet Russia, and it was the great Russia. Then the Soviet Union suddenly fell apart, in fact, overnight, and it turned out that in the former Soviet Union republics there were 25 million Russians. They used to live in one country and suddenly found themselves abroad. Can you imagine how many problems came out?

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, People

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• Nowadays, there are plans to separate the Baltic states from the common power system of the former Soviet Union and to integrate them into the European system. What does it mean for us in practice? In practice, it means that a number of zones will emerge between several regions of the Russian Federation, where we will have no power transmission lines, since previously we used to have a loop transition through the Baltic countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Mean, Practice

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

  Vladimir Putin

  United States, May, Strange

  "Sott Exclusive: Full unedited text of Vladimir Putin's interview with Charlie Rose: What CBS left out" by Harrison Koehli, www.sott.net. September 29, 2015.

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• I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.

  Vladimir Putin

  Citizens, Humans, Human Beings

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation.

  Barack Obama

  Would Be, Cypriots, Interest

  Source: time.com

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• Yet our interests, the interests of the Russian Federation, include the normalisation of relations with Japan, which is not at the bottom of the agenda. The whole range of what will be proposed for a solution, the entire range of matters related to the normalisation of our relations and what that would bring after normalisation, this is the whole range of issues to be discussed and decided, and those decisions should be of a practical nature.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Issues, Decision

  Source: www.rt.com

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• However, personally, I see this as not having the right to abuse this trust [among the citizens of Russia and Japan], and any decision we reach should correspond to the national interests of the Russian Federation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Japan, Decision

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to do), there should be a mixed population with equal rights, the same rights for the Arab and the French populations, as well as all the other races living there.

  Catherine Camus

  Rights, Race, Trying

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• I'm as proud and assertive in my Quebec identity as any Quebecer. I believe it's to Quebec's advantage to be part of the Canadian federation. But I will be extremely strong and forceful in defending Quebec's interests within Canada.

  Philippe Couillard

  Strong, Believe, Identity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

  Graeme Murphy

  Anniversary, Australia Day, 50th Birthday

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• I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.

  Rowan Williams

  Running, Long, Church

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• Looking at the map of the Russian Federation, one can see a country covering mostly northern areas; today more than 70 percent of our territory is or can be referred to as northern, if not the Far North. We have a rather small warm Black sea strip in the South and - to tell the truth - quite a few regions with a hospitable warm climate.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Sea, Black

  Source: www.rt.com

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• As far as I know, Russians are the first among tourists going to Turkey; last year three million Russians visited that country, although its climate zone is almost the same as the one of the Black sea region. Therefore, we have had an important task to develop an infrastructure in this region of the Russian Federation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Years, Sea

  Source: www.rt.com

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• It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism — the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Agreement, Perfect, Liberty

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

  Gerald Celente

  Mafia, Imf, Lasts

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• The most obvious risk was that the Russian speaking population was threatened and that the threats were absolutely specific and tangible. This is what made Crimean residents, the people who live there, think about their future and ask Russia for help. This is what guided our decision.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Russia, People

  Vladimir Putin during a Question-and-Answer Session, www.washingtonpost.com. April 17, 2014.

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• The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced on the states who are its members is contained in the Federalist Papers.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Law, Weakness, Paper

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.186, Columbia University Press

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• I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

  Chinua Achebe

  Desire, Genocide, Treated

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• There is no real peace in Europe, if the states are reconstituted on a basis of national sovereignty. (…) They must have larger markets. Their prosperity is impossible, unless the States of Europe form themselves in a European Federation.

  Jean Monnet

  Real, Europe, Impossible

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• After crippling the big red retard tonight, over a short period of time I have run the gambit of the who's who in the World Wrestling Federation! Crippling Stone Cold Steve Austin, destroying the unstoppable Mankind; putting him out for three months and beating him for the WWF championship. And then, defending it only a week later and dominating...and, oh yeah, taking to school that little punk, your champion, The Rock!

  Triple H

  Running, Wrestling, School

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• Last night at WrestleMania, in front of 68,000 people, I defeated Chris Jericho and became the Undisputed World Wrestling Federation Champion. And all of the doubts went away, because I proved to myself, I proved to the world, I proved to Chris Jericho that I AM The Game, and apparently I am THAT...DAMN...GOOD!

  Triple H

  Wrestling, Night, Games

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• I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.

  Vaclav Havel

  Believe, Character, Rights

  "Le Monde" Newspaper, April 29, 1999.

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• Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Community, Fundamentals, May

  Voltairine De Cleyre (1989). “Anarchism and American Traditions”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

  Hulk Hogan

  Wrestling, Champion, World

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