"I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them."

-- Nelson Mandela

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“We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources. So why not redefine our agenda as the solution to those problems?”
“I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.”
“Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through”

Source : "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.
“I think it's not just about how you perform on the field, but how you hold yourself off it.”
“I used to wear makeup all the time when I was younger. Now I go out and I don't care.”
“I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.”

Source : "Sarah Ferguson: Diana, the Queen and I" by Nancy Collins, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 19, 2011.
“All is not gold that glisters.”
“I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we will be automatically drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say "you're not going to be making national decisions for us"”

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