"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."

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Source : "Dilma Rousseff: can Brazil's fighter survive the turmoil?" by Jonathan Watts and Bruce Douglas, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2015.

Dilma Rousseff

#Commitment Quotes #Views Quotes #Political Quotes

“Never call a man a fool; borrow from him”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”
“Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy.”
“Remember, the political idea being expressed a year ago was that because the GOP interpreted its 1994 mandate as a call to budget-balancing austerity, the electorate would never give the White House to the GOP if its nominee was also a root-canal austerian.”
“I came to realize that visualizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation, is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals.”
“To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?”
“European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself to be part of an old and honorable tradition--of intellectual activity, of letters--and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America.”
“Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.”

Source : "Talking About Dysfunctional Families with Martha MacIsaac". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. January 8, 2013.
“I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.”

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