politician Quotes
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The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we’re here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.
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Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
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As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.
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It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.
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Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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We’re more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.
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Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
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Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.
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Our country doesn’t win anymore. We don’t win on trade. We don’t win on the military. We can’t defeat ISIS. We’re not taking care of our great people, the veterans. We’re not taking care of them.