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Normally when people resign they will organise their champagne farewell parties... and then they resurface somewhere.
Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.
One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.
It is neither feasible nor desirable for Europe to establish itself as a geopolitical equal or competitor of the U.S.
Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.
Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.
Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.
I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.
There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.
We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.
It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.
Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
Both the Bush people and [Barack] Obama people had no problem working with the holdovers. They weren`t out to get them.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.
With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.
The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.
There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.
never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs
It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action
History shows that societies where opportunity is safeguarded tend to be societies that are good international citizens.
Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.
Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.
Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.
Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.
I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.
Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.
A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.
This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.
As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.
A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.
We still live in a world where if you have nuclear weapons, you are buying power; you are buying insurance against attack.
Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents.
During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters
Secretary Hillary Clinton for four years was part of a policy of resetting Russian relations with Russia in our interests.
A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.
Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.