"We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements."

-- Anna Lindh

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“I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.”
“I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.”
“In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.7
“I'm 6'2 and not a small person.”
“We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family”
“When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the US economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.”

Source : "Political leaders often overlook the key to economic growth: women" by Lael Brainard, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.
“When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other of these two sentiments. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire.”

Source : Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.3, Princeton University Press
“In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.”

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