"I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative."

-- Catherine Ashton

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“Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character”
“Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.”

Source : "Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War" by David M. Glantz, (p. 228), 1989.
“You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.”
“Iâ€™ve been feeling something else. Like Iâ€™m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.”
“Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.”
“The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.
“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.”
“I have never stopped performing live.I've been blessed with the talent to sing and play the piano so I can fit into a lot of different configurations and venues. I play public and private performances and it has served me well. And I've been fortunate to work in Europe and Asia as well as The US. So for those who have not attended my shows, it doesn't mean I'm not performing.”

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