"For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes."

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Source : "Nick Clegg announces support for new transparency law" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

Nick Clegg

#Country Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.”
“It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.”

Source : Terence, Henry Thomas Riley, Christopher Smart (1853). “The Comedies of Terence: And the Fables of Phædrus”, p.114
“Painting completed my life.”
“I don't believe in paying full price for clothing.”
“If it were legal, I'd marry food.”
“There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.”

Source : "Braude's Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations and Anecdotes". Book by Jacob Morton Braude, 1957.
“We started out with a lot of bands in the same generation as ours, and there are very few left. Mainly, I think people get into it for the wrong reasons. They either want fame or the girls. I think music has to be a fun experience, but it also needs to be in your blood. I firmly believe I was born to write beautiful music, and that's what I do, and that's why I don't do anything else, because I have no interest and no passion for it.”
“I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.”

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