Head Of State Quotes - Page 2

• In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Government, Law, Divine Right

  Leo Tolstoy, M. K. Gandhi (2016). “A LETTER TO A HINDU (A Fascinating View on Love and Non-Violence): Including Correspondences with Gandhi & Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby”, p.31, e-artnow

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• We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.

  Oliver North

  Needs, Defense, Lines

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• We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in the former Soviet republics believe that they must have total power.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Believe, Views, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

  Dan Quayle

  Latin, School, Wish

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• I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.

  Jacques Pepin

  Kitchen, President, Nehru

  "Jacques Pã©pin Is Not A Mallow Man" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

  Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

  Running, Queens, Australia

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• I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.

  Goldie

  Religious, People, Joy

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• If, for example, one day Ki Bagoes Hadikoesoemo becomes the Indonesian Head of State, and dies, won't his child be [his replacement]? Then because of that I do not adhere to the principle of monarchism.

  Sukarno

  Children, One Day, Principles

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• The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change

  Thom Yorke

  Names, Luck, States

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• There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not at the level of the human frailties of particular monarchs or presidents. No one seriously contends that the American presidency should be abolished because Bill Clinton is a self-confessed adulterer. So why should the abolition of the British monarchy be contemplated because the same is true of Prince Charles?

  David Cannadine

  Self, Important, President

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA

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• Bill Clinton, who, to his credit, has established a clear and consistent foreign policy, which is as follows: Whenever the president of the United States gets anywhere near any foreign head of state, living or dead, he gives that leader a big old hug. This has proven to be an effective way to get foreign leaders to do what we want: Many heads of state are willing to sign any random document that President Clinton thrusts in front of them, without reading it, just so he will stop embracing them.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, Giving, Leader

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Change, Religious, Men

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• I don't know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai, for his strength, for his wisdom and for his courage to lead this country first in the defeat of the Taliban and now in rebuilding a democratic and unified Afghanistan. And I can tell you I am with foreign ministers and with heads of state all over the world. I sit in the councils of NATO. I sit with the EU. I sit with people all over the world and there is great admiration for your president and also for what the Afghan people are doing here.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, People, Community

  Remarks With Afghan President Hamid Karzai After Their Meeting, 2001-2009.state.gov. June 28, 2006.

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• If there were more women heads of state in the world, the world would be more peaceful and better focused on the improvement of the overall quality of life and welfare.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Peaceful, Quality, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We are with Angela Merkel both people who proceed methodically, we love details. At summits, we two are among the few heads of state and government who take notes. I have always been someone who wants to explore things down to the last detail so I can understand them. And she is the same, I value that about her. I love the discussions that we have with each other about such things.

  Emmanuel Macron

  People, Discussion, Values

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• After Trump's election victory, I explained why there would be no friendship between Putin and Trump. The contradictions between the systems are too great. And Putin needs an enemy. He wants to be the leader of the anti-American, anti-European world. And given that he cannot be friends with their heads of state and government, he instead needs to generate scandals and resistance.

  Alexei Navalny

  Leader, Enemy, Victory

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We are very hip on the fact that America's always No. 1. On this we are not, in terms of the number of women in our legislative branches and obviously as head of state. We need to push on that. I hate to say this: It isn't all men's fault. I think some of it is our own attitude and approach. Some of it very healthy, that women want to make choices about their lives and how they want to spend their time, and what they value.

  Madeleine Albright

  Attitude, Hate, Men

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• When I visited North Korea in November 2014, is that Kim Jong-un is not merely the head of state of the DPRK - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea - he's also their deity. So, when you insult him as the head of state, you're also insulting the deity, which of course the regime plays to a fare-thee-well to the domestic audience there.

  James R. Clapper

  Insulting, November, Democratic

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

  Deepak Chopra

  Special, Groups, States

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 27, 2015.

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• He [Dalai Lama] feels, and I feel, and everyone feels the suffering and frustration of the Tibetans who long for action, who long for a militant response. But, in some ways very few of those individuals have ever been in the position of being head of state.

  Pico Iyer

  Frustration, Long, Suffering

  Source: layoga.com

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• Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That's also the secret of why some head of states look brave!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Brave, Secret, Looks

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• If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

  Mark Strand

  Reading, Government, World

  Inscape Journal Interview, inscape.byu.edu.

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• If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

  Robert Muller

  Opportunity, Government, Law

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• Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Children, Military, Dark

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• The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.

  George Ayittey

  Government, Want, Rich

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