International Quotes - Page 3

• ...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Communication, Winning

  Zedong Mao (1959). “On people's democratic dictatorship: written in commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, July 1, 1949”

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• The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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• Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Airports

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• Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Wall, Military

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• We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Airports

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• They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Airports

  "Information minister: Iraq still controls airport". www.cnn.com. April 6, 2003.

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• We will slaughter them; Bush Junior, and his international gang of bastards!

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Juniors

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• Pouring arms into the spreading cauldron of war risks exacerbating the crisis in Iraq. A fully inclusive international diplomatic process should be attempted and is urgently needed now, before the fires of war and militancy spread further in the region.

  David Cortright

  Military, War, Fire

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• We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

  Manu Ginobili

  Basketball, Nba, Growing

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• We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

  Bob Menendez

  Rights, Mass Destruction, Support

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• In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of international oil industry and bid the mighty peak farewell.

  Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

  Farewell, Humble, Oil

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• American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

  Bertrand Tavernier

  Cinema, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Real, Fighting, Hunger And Poverty

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• I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time.

  Billy Mills

  Running, Distance, Men

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• Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Powerful, War

  Vladimir Putin “VLADIMIR PUTIN: Munich”, ITBM

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• They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with us, you are against us.' To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organizations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Organization, Here And There

  Address to Duma deputies, Federation Council members, heads of Russian regions and civil society representatives in the Kremlin, en.kremlin.ru. March 18, 2014.

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• Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

  Joseph Alsop

  Love, Thank You, Gratitude

  In Observer 30 Nov. 1952

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• All civilised countries should unite in the fight against international terrorism.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Fighting, Terrorism

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• If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.

  David Rockefeller

  Ignorance, Government, Vision

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• Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

  David Rockefeller

  Ignorance, Past, Ignorant

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

  William S. Burroughs

  Fate, Ideas, Hysteria

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• Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to cut off its funding; improve our intelligence; strengthen our defenses; counter its warped ideology; and stem the flow of foreign fighters into - and out of - the Middle East. And in two weeks, I will chair a meeting of the UN Security Council to further mobilize the international community around this effort.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Cutting, Two

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

  Deacon Jones

  Football, Oklahoma, Nfl

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• Fair-goes are not only for oneself, but for underdogs. Even in international sporting matches Australians have been known to switch from their own side to that of a gallant challenger. Australians love a 'battler', an underdog who is fighting the top dog, although their veneration for him is likely to pass if he comes out from under.

  Donald Horne

  Sports, Dog, Fighting

  Donald Horne (1966). “The Lucky Country: Australia in the Sixties”

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• Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

  Gustav Nossal

  Leadership, Education, Country

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