Pacific Quotes

• The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.

  Vladimir Putin

  Ocean, Moving, Russia

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• Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Europe, Lasts, Asia

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• For more than 60 years, the United States has stood by our allies and partners in the Asia Pacific. That includes our defence partnership with Singapore, which stretches back more than two decades.

  Barack Obama

  Two, Years, Asia

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.

  Bill McKibben

  Ocean, Pipeline, Coal

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

  Jenny Shipley

  Country, Ocean, Historical

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• America needs an ineffective president. That's much better than an effective president that's going to go to war with Russia, that's going to push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that's going to protect Wall Street, and that's going to oppose neoliberal austerity. I would much rather have an ineffective president than someone who's going to do these bad things that I fear is going to come from Hillary and the Democratic Party.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, War, Party

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

  John Moody

  Lakes, United States, Borders

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

  Leon Panetta

  Asia, Prosperity, Century

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• Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

  Leon Panetta

  United States, Wells, States

  "Panetta on Pentagon Budget: ‘Cutting Almost $500 Billion Is Not Chump Change’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2012.

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• China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.

  Leon Panetta

  Thinking, Korea, Issues

  "Panetta: 'Human Side' Makes Pentagon Cuts Tough". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 8, 2012.

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• Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

  Richard Pryor

  Islands, Half, Want

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• A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.

  Kevin Rudd

  Opportunity, Australia, Challenges

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Islands, Usa

  Press comment in Hawaii, April 25, 1989.

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• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Selfish, California, Effort

  "The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts". Book by D. H. Lawrence, Vol. 4, 1987.

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• Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!

  Ed Koch

  New York, Aqua, Cities

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• Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

  Louise Brown

  Hate, Play, Musical

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• I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

  Tony Curtis

  Navy, Tenderness

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• In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.

  Idris Elba

  Rocks, Mustache, Might

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• You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

  Bob Feller

  Teamwork, Baseball, Men

  "Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories". Book by Bob Feller, www.nytimes.com. 2007.

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• I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

  Matthew Fox

  Space, Islands, Four

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• V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

  Doc Hastings

  Fighting, Japan, Victory

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• The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.

  John Hoeven

  Oil, Environmental, Keystone Pipeline

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• I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.

  Mother Jones

  California, Southern, Railroads

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• I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Believe, Mean

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