Quotes:This is a great honour for Germany.
I think he will be a worthy successor to Pope John Paul II. I congratulate him on behalf of the government and all Germans. [on the election of Pope Benedict XVI]
View quotes by Gerhard SchroederJohn Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.
View quotes by Lord Rees-MoggIt is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.
View quotes by Mohammad KhatamiWe have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party
View quotes by Andrew LansleyJohn Kerry and I made a promise to the US people that in this election every vote would count and every vote would be counted.
Tonight we are keeping our word and we will fight for every vote
View quotes by John EdwardsHe's given a lifetime of service to the party. Without his contribution - among others - we wouldn't have had three terms of government.
I know he has been damaged by events in his personal life - those are, in my view, private matters and should remain so.
He should be judged by his contribution. [on John 'Two Jags' Prescott]
View quotes by Des BrowneOur people receive the news of his death with a deep sense of grief and loss.
He was a holy champion of the Filipino family and of profound Christian values that make everyone of us contemplate... what is just, moral and sacred in life.
[on Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Gloria ArroyoWe are grateful to him for the tireless and difficult work he carried out unstintingly against all forms of totalitarianism, violence, oppression and moral degradation, all in the name of the values of the Catholic Church, which are the supreme values of human dignity and solidarity. [on Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Silvio BerlusconiIsrael, the Jewish people and the entire world, lost today a great champion of reconciliation and brotherhood between the faiths.
This is a great loss, first and foremost for the Catholic Church and its hundreds of millions of believers, but also for humanity as a whole.
[on the death of Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Silvan ShalomA great Pope - our most outstanding fellow countryman, the Holy Father, a good father to all of us, believers and non-believers, followers of different religions - is no more. [On Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Aleksander KwasniewskiThe great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
John F. Kennedy
View quotes by John F KennedyThe world has lost a religious leader who was revered across people of all faiths and none. He was an inspiration, a man of extraordinary faith, dignity and courage.
Throughout a hard and often difficult life, he stood for social justice and on the side of the oppressed, whether as a young man facing the Nazi occupation in Poland or later in challenging the Communist regime.
He never wavered, never flinched, in the struggle for what he thought was good and right.
[on Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Tony BlairWill you confirm that, despite the initiative on departmental efficiency savings, you have managed to spend £645 changing the sign outside your office from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to the deputy prime minister's office. [to John Prescott]
View quotes by William HagueOn Thursday [when the game of croquet took place] the deputy prime minister was not standing in for the prime minister.
He stands in for him only when he goes on holiday. He went on holiday on Saturday.
This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn]
View quotes by Paul ClarkThe first reference I can find to this quotation seems to be in 'The St Catharines Standard' (St Cathariens, Ontario, Canada (Osprey Press)) Ocober 13, 2000.
A Canadian politician William Peter Randall was lamenting on the lack of election races and apparent public lack of interest.
He said, 'Acclamation is not democracy, it is apathy'.
You can find more about him in Wikipedia etc.
I have seen the quotation used a few times since then and belive it may be a good addition to your database.
John
Acclamation is not democracy, it is apathy.
-Willam Peter Randall
Canadian Politician, Quotiation circa 2000
View quotes by William Peter Randall'Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country.' —Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2001
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?'
-Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.'
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'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
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