Head Of State Quotes - Page 3

• George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

  Jesse Jackson

  Numbers, Political, Politics

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• Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Giving, Possibility, States

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• Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Government, Voice, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there are in this country. We even had a woman head of state, and that's something the United States has yet to catch up with.

  Vandana Shiva

  Country, Doctors, India

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Weather, Ties

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• What happened in Ukraine? The coup d'état in Ukraine has led to a civil war, because, yes, let's say, many Ukrainians no longer trusted President Yanukovych. However, they should have legitimately come to the polls and voted for another head of state instead of staging a coup d'état. And after the coup d'état took place, someone supported it, someone was satisfied with it, while others were not. And those who did not like it were treated from the position of force. And that led to a civil war.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Should Have, Ukraine

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• The culture of chefs is a melting pot, and I always say this - if we could put all the heads of state around a table, each representing their food culture, and then each take one bite of the other's and pass it to the right, and then explain the ideals and culture around those bites, our world problems would be easier to solve.

  Robert Irvine

  Our World, Food Culture, Tables

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• We have seen recently, almost every major head of state goes to India and says, we believe India should be in the Council. They go back home and do nothing about it. But this cannot be sustained for long. If they want to keep the UN as a global forum where they discuss incidents and take some meaningful decisions, they should [reform].

  Kofi Annan

  Meaningful, Believe, Home

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• Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, People, Boards

  "A Woman’s Place" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. July 11 & 18, 2011.

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• More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving, Prejudice, Chance

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• I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Reading, Government, Speech

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, C. David Crenna (1987). “Lifting the Shadow of War”, McClelland & Stewart

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• The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

  Johann Hari

  Grew, States, Food Stamps

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2012

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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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• It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

  Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

  Confidence, People, Prime

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• Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.

  Evo Morales

  Dirty, Naughty, Drug

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• The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

  Philip Slater

  Politics, Our Society, Riches

  Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.142, Beacon Press

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• I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

  Bono

  Impact, Decision, Nervous

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• I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Missing, Done

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

  Johann Hari

  Growing Up, Patriotic, Kids

  Twitter post from Jun 02, 2012

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• The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Greatness, Punishment, Criminals

  Thomas Aquinas, T. C. O'Brien (2006). “Summa Theologiae: Volume 27, Effects of Sin, Stain and Guilt: 1a2ae. 86-89”, p.25, Cambridge University Press

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• Racism in our countries is a fact in that the indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being head of state. It has reached the point that 99% of the indigenous women have not gone to school. The indigenous are condemned to live in a situation designed to exterminate them. They receive a pittance of a salary, they neither speak nor write the language, politics dictates their situation. Is this slavery? I don't know what it's called. It is not the same as before because we are in modern times.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Country, Writing, School

  Source: www.indians.org

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• I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just treated me as they would anybody else. They had to deal with me as a representative of the United States of America, and the United States of America was too important to be dismissed or ignored on any grounds.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, Numbers, America

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• One of the things that I noticed with my own eyes was Nelson Mandela ability to engage with kings and queens and heads of state on the one hand, and his ability to engage with ordinary people, equally comfortably.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Queens, Kings, Eye

  Source: anniepaul.net

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