Dilma Rousseff famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.
-- Dilma Rousseff

#Commitment #Views #Political
I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.
-- Dilma Rousseff

#Country #Believe #Majority
The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment. We have been unable to solve old disputes and to prevent new threats. The use of force is incapable of eliminating the underlying causes of conflict.
-- Dilma Rousseff

#Our Generation #Leader #Challenges
You got to be ready for everything in life
-- Dilma Rousseff

#Powerful #Culture #Powerful Women
I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.
-- Dilma Rousseff
We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.
-- Dilma Rousseff

#Children #Fate #Cracks
Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.
-- Dilma Rousseff

#Reality #Justice #Democracy
Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who does not value the Brazilian democracy.
-- Dilma Rousseff

#Military #Democracy #Doe

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take it on if you can commit to it and if you know you can accommodate and give your best to it and that's what you do, and I have always done that throughout my life - before marriage, after marriage, before motherhood, after motherhood.
Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.
In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

Dilma Rousseff famous quotes

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