Politics Quotes – Set 14 – 2017

#1

My reply was that the Kurdish people welcome the presence of American forces in Kurdistan in order to defend the freedom they enjoy and to prevent being attacked with weapons of mass destruction.

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#2

It is this regime that started a war of genocide against the Kurdish people, then started an unjust war against our dear neighbour Iran which has often helped the Iraqi people at times of hardship.

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#3

Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I’m waiting for sleep.

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#4

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

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#5

We do not have one party which got the majority. We have different groups, different parties.

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#6

We completely persist that the regime in Iraq should be democratic.

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#7

We cannot wait for years and years of terrorist activity because we haven’t enough government forces.

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#8

We believe that the mission to bring about comprehensive democratic changes in Baghdad, in the sense of ending the existing dictatorship, is the task of the Iraqi opposition forces.

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#9

We are finding new mass graves every day. Saddam Hussein committed a crime by using chemical weapons… He waged two wars on Iran and Kuwait. He murdered and executed hundreds and hundreds of Iraqis.

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#10

The victory of the new Iraq will be the triumph of freedom over hate, of decency over intolerance.

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#11

The United States of America is not the lawyer of the Kurdish people, it is a big state, with its own policy, and it has its own national interest.

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#12

The regional plots that pushed some Kurdish parties against other Kurdish parties are about to come to an end.

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#13

While it’s very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there’s no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I’ve seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.

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#14

We’ve thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq.

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#15

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

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#16

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we’ve got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we’ll get the money.

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#17

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

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#18

I’m not really involved with politics… I’m living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

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#19

Kinky will get the politicians out of politics, but we need your help to get him on the ballot. Kinky has only a few weeks to collect over 45,000 signatures, and I’ll be one of those signatures, and I hope you will, too.

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#20

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.

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#21

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

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#22

We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I’m searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.

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#23

We want to give the department real teeth to protect the public. This would give the federal government meaningful authority.

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#24

This proposal breaks faith with rural folks all across the West and will make it harder to find bipartisan legislative solutions in the future

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#25

We are receiving extraordinary cooperation from the government of Yemen

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#26

There can be no gain saying that political power in this country has too long been the monopoly of the few, and the many are not beasts of burden but also beasts of prey.

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#27

The basis of my politics lies in the proposition that the Untouchables are not a sub-division or sub-section of Hindus, and that they are a separate and distinct element in the national life of India.

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#28

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

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#29

We fail to see why Congress, having expressly endorsed an expensive surveillance role for EPA, … would then implicitly preclude the agency from verifying substantive compliance.

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#30

The First Amendment requires us to be vigilant in making these judgments, to guard against undue hindrances to political conversations and the exchange of ideas

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#31

Politics is rearing its head like it has not done before

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#32

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

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#33

It is very important for the freedoms of Britain that we do keep separate politicians from the legal process, … We must allow the due legal process to proceed.

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#34

It is politically and diplomatically possible to negotiate withdrawal

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#35

It is clear from weekend reports that the violence in Kosovo has continued. We do not accept that this is merely an internal matter.

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#36

If we are to take military action, military action must be in support of a clear political process. Today, we are going to agree on what that political process should be.

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#37

I welcome this statement, which looks like a positive development, … We shall need to study exactly what the Libyans have said.

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#38

I welcome any move which helps bring Milosevic to justice, … It is vital that Milosevic answers these charges.

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#39

I was pleased that the prime minister assured me that he would make inquiries today about access … to the remaining two British citizens he has not yet seen

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#40

I believe that we are about to face a new strategy of the neighboring countries, especially by the brothers who support Iraq and the Iraqi people.

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#41

First, we insist on democracy, they on dictatorship. Then there is the matter of the continuous ethnic cleansing policy in the Kurdish areas under the control of the Iraqi government.

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#42

First of all, I would like to state that the Kurdistan Democratic Party is an old party with great history, and so is the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

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#43

The region stands on the brink

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#44

The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is … whether now might be a better time to let a new leader in who could then achieve the unity we need if we are going to go forward

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#45

The president of South Korea is very keen that other countries help to engage North Korea by bringing it in from the cold.

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#46

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia

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#47

Sanctions could not be lifted if he signs up to the agreement, but sanctions could certainly be lifted if he carries out the agreement

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#48

Our objective is clear: to impress on India and Pakistan the urgent need to adhere to the global non-proliferation regime, to conduct no further tests, and to begin a dialogue which will go to the heart of the differences between them. The nuclear tests have only increased tension, not enhanced security

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#49

Last night, (Yugoslav) President (Slobodan) Milosevic made what he called a peace offer. He said he was starting to withdraw his troops from Kosovo

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#50

It’s very important that we all send Saddam Hussein a message that is resolute, is firm and is united, … He must be firmly told that he is not going to be permitted to continue to build weapons of mass destruction, particularly biological and chemical weapons.