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American benevolence

American benevolence is the doctrine that the interventions of the United States in the affairs of other nations have been benevolent, making the United States an exception to the empirical observation that imperial powers act for their own interest and disguise their motives behind a rhetoric of benevolent motives.

A

 * The United States is good. We try to do our best everywhere.
 * Madeleine Albright, October 23, 1999

 * It is the threat of the use of force and our line-up there that is going to put force behind the diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us. I know that the American men and women in uniform are always prepared to sacrifice for freedom, democracy and the American way of life.
 * Madeleine Albright, February 19, 1998

 * Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame.
 * Amnesty International, 1996

B

 * The Americans were caught with their pants down after 9/11. They are committing unspeakable acts. I think that the human rights violations there are unacceptable and that they will be sorry for it and pay reparations for it. We are not like that. Because our High Court has prepared the tools to deal with the reality that isn't only 9/11, unfortunately. We have prepared tools to defend human rights in times of peace as well as in times of war.
 * Aharon Barak, November 24, 2007

 * Think of it like this. When Burger King, if it closes down in the neighborhood, the McDonald's makes a lot more money because there's no competition. Without America competing for the sanity and safety of the Middle East, the terrorist threat will spread like a cancer, and those cancer cells are all throughout the region... We need to stop listening to the clowns in Washington. Dig deep for the courage and conviction to do the hard work that lies ahead so our kids don't have to. This is like winning this war in Iraq. We as a nation can do anything that we set our minds to. Why? Because we're Americans. We're winners. Because we're on the side of what is right and what is just.
 * Glenn Beck, July 17, 2007

 * I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet. You know what, when everybody else apologizes for all the crap they've done then we can apologize for our crap too. Boo-hoo, cry me a river.
 * Glenn Beck, August 28, 2009

 * The unwritten treaty between the United States and Israel is based on a similar world view. Both countries believe in democratic values, respect for human rights, solving conflicts through negotiation using rational and logical arguments, and both would like to see a better, more reasonable world living in peace and prosperity without oppressing people, while providing equal opportunities and exploiting the abilities of each and every person. [...] And anyone who does not want to solve the Middle East conflict because he is unwilling to pay the price of compromise, finds it convenient to hide behind slogans such as a war of religions or a war of cultures, in order to explain that the conflict is insoluble and that no territorial arrangement will satisfy the fighters for religion or culture. The conclusion: It is therefore preferable not to give up anything and to keep what there is, to fortify ourselves for the upcoming Armageddon, and to steal from welfare and education and health so that we can arm ourselves to the teeth.
 * Yossi Beilin, Haartez (10 November 2006).

 * I think the more the West supports Musharraf, the stronger the extremist forces grow and the moderate forces are being marginalized, that's not good for Pakistan... There is rising anti-Americanism for different reasons. One of them is that Musharraf is a dictator and people feel angry that the West talks about freedom but turns a blind eye to the empowerment of Pakistanis. The second reason is that we have a very large Pakhtun population and the bombing in Afghanistan led to many civilian deaths and people knew each other across the border, so there is that grief...
 * Benazir Bhutto, September 3, 2003

 * Mr. President, today, in his speech to the National Endowment for Democracy, President Bush gave a vivid and, I believe, compelling description of the threat to America and to freedom from radical Islamic fundamentalism. He made, in my view, a powerful case for what is at stake for every American. Simply put, the radical fundamentalists seek to kill our citizens in great numbers, to disrupt our economy, and to reshape the international order. They would take the world backwards, replacing freedom with fear and hope with hatred. If they were to acquire a nuclear weapon, the threat they would pose to America would be literally existential. The President said it well. The President is right that we cannot and will not retreat. We will defend ourselves and defeat the enemies of freedom and progress.
 * Joe Biden, October 6, 2005

 * The reason we have no moral authority is we’re not acting. I heard the same argument with Milosevic. I went over there, found out there was genocide going on, I came to your husband, I said, "We must act!" Now, look, we acted. Not an American was killed. We saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
 * Joe Biden, June 3, 2007

 * There can be no debate about the rights and wrongs of what is happening in Iraq today. The desire for democracy is good. The attempt to destroy it through terrorism is evil.
 * Tony Blair, February 21, 2007

 * I didn't come here to be a congressman. I came here to do something. And I think the top of our list is providing for the safety and security of the American people. That's at the top of our list. After 3,000 of our fellow citizens died at the hands of these terrorists, when are we going to stand up and take them on? When are we going to defeat them? Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you, if we don't do it now, and if we don't have the courage to defeat this enemy, we will long, long regret it.
 * John Boehner, May 25, 2007

 * We guarantee the security of the world, protect our allies, keep critical sea lanes open and lead the war on terror. China, by contrast, seems to be threatening an invasion of Taiwan and could ignite an arms race that takes Japan, South Korea and Taiwan nuclear. [...] the Pax Americana in Asia, as in Europe, has been conducive to a half-century of growth, peace and prosperity. Things might be different if China were democratic. But for now a line must be drawn: An attack on Taiwan is an attack on all democratic states in the region.
 * Max Boot, June 12, 2005

 * The fact that America exists as a powerful and vibrant democracy and that it espouses its own values as universal is enough to challenge dictatorships everywhere.
 * Joseph Bosco, "Tillerson and Trump: On Morality Versus Realism" (6 September 2017), Real Clear Defense

 * The American people know the difference between responsible and irresponsible debate when they see it. They know the difference between honest critics who question the way the war is being prosecuted and partisan critics who claim that we acted in Iraq because of oil, or because of Israel, or because we misled the American people. And they know the difference between a loyal opposition that points out what is wrong, and defeatists who refuse to see that anything is right. When our soldiers hear politicians in Washington question the mission they are risking their lives to accomplish, it hurts their morale. In a time of war, we have a responsibility to show that whatever our political differences at home, our nation is united and determined to prevail.
 * George W. Bush, January 10, 2006

 * America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused — preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
 * George W. Bush, speech at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California (19 November 1999)

 * Freedom is not the possession of one race. We know with equal certainty that freedom is not the possession of one nation. This belief in the natural rights of man, this conviction that justice should reach wherever the sun passes, leads America into the world. With the power and resources given to us, the United States seeks to bring peace where there is conflict, hope where there's suffering, and liberty where there's tyranny.
 * George W. Bush, Hope and Conscience Will Not Be Silenced (8 July 2003), speech at Goree Island, Senegal

 * America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
 * George W. Bush, November 19, 1999

 * I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude and I believe most Iraqis express that.
 * George W. Bush, January 13, 2007

 * I want to remind you that after Vietnam, after we left, the — millions of people lost their life. The Khmer Rouge, for example, in Cambodia. And my concern is there would be a parallel there; that if we didn't help this government get going, stay on its feet, be able to defend itself, the same thing would happen. There would be the slaughter of a lot of innocent life. The difference, of course, is that this time around the enemy wouldn't just be content to stay in the Middle East, they'd follow us here.
 * George W. Bush, April 19, 2007

 * George W. Bush: We are showing the people of the Middle East that America stands firmly for liberty and justice and peace. And we are leaving the next President with a stable foundation for the future, and an approach that can enjoy broad bipartisan support at home. There is still more work to be done. The war is not yet over, but with the conclusion of these agreements and the courage of the Iraqi people and the Iraqi troops and American troops and civilian personnel, it is decisively on its way to being won. Shukran jazeelan [Thank you]. : [in Arabic] This is a gift from the Iraqis! This is the farewell kiss, you dog! This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq!
 * Press conference in Baghdad, December 14, 2008

C

 * The American approach is not to dominate... The system that we have promoted for security and also commerce in Asia for seventy years is one in which everyone gets to rise and prosper. Think about the history, there... Think about the history in which Japan recovered from World War II and became a great economic powerhouse, then South Korea, then Taiwan, then Southeast Asia. Today, China and India. Now, why was that? What was the security anchor underneath all of that. The answer is it has been the pivotal role of the United States and that's a role we intend to keep, to continue to play and if the Chinese actually think about it and many of them do, they know that's the environment in which China has gotten to find its own way from poverty and isolation back in Mao's day to where they are today.
 * Ashton B. Carter, interview with Charlie Rose (February 2016)

 * The reason that we went into Iraq was to establish a permanent military base in the Gulf region and I have never heard any of our leaders say that they would commit themselves to the Iraqi people that ten years from now there will be no military bases of the United States in Iraq. I would like to hear that. But that's one of the things that concerns Iraqi people. And when I meet with Arab leaders around the world they all have noticed this. They're the ones that have brought it to my attention and I think it's an accurate statement.
 * Jimmy Carter, February 1, 2006

 * I never criticized United States planners for mistakes in Vietnam. True, they made some mistakes, but my criticism was always aimed at what they aimed to do and largely achieved. The Russians doubtless made mistakes in Afghanistan, but my condemnation of their aggression and atrocities never mentioned those mistakes, which are irrelevant to the matter — though not for the commissars. Within our ideological system, it is impossible to perceive that anyone might criticize anything but "mistakes" (I suspect that totalitarian Russia was more open in that regard).
 * Noam Chomsky, March 31, 1995

 * Powerful states have quite typically considered themselves to be exceptionally magnificent, and the United States is no exception to that.
 * Noam Chomsky, Interview with The Young Turks, October 26, 2010

 * Whether you were for it or against it or whatever your opinions of it are to date, every American ought to be pulling for this mission to succeed.
 * Bill Clinton, December 7, 2005

 * When I came into office, I was determined that our country would go into the 21st century still the world's greatest force for peace and freedom, for democracy and security and prosperity. We have to promote these values just as vigorously as we did in the Cold War.
 * Bill Clinton, April 28, 1996

 * Today we are called upon to stand for democracy under attack in Colombia.
 * Bill Clinton, May 2, 2000

 * Al-Qaeda was embedded in Afghan society, it was given safe haven by Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership. And they were given a chance to turn over al-Qaeda and Bin Laden before we attacked them, and they refused.
 * Hillary Rodham Clinton, December 2, 2009

 * We will stand with Israel, because Israel is standing for American values as well as Israeli ones. [...] We will support Israel in her efforts to send a message to Hamas, Hezbollah, to the Syrians, to the Iranians - to all who seek death and domination instead of life and freedom - that we will not permit this to happen and we will take whatever steps are necessary.
 * Hillary Rodham Clinton, July 17, 2006

 * Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When the world looks to America, America looks to you, and you never let her down... I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness... I have 35 years of experience, fighting for real change... the American people and our American military cannot want freedom and stability for the Iraqis more than they want it for themselves... we should have stayed focused on wiping out the Taliban and finding, killing, capturing bin Laden and his chief lieutenants... I also made a full commitment to martial American power, resources and values in the global fight against these terrorists. That begins with ensuring that America does have the world's strongest and smartest military force. We've begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar province, it's working... We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war... We've got to be prepared to maintain the best fighting force in the world. I propose increasing the size of our Army by 80,000 soldiers, balancing the legacy systems with newer programs to help us keep our technological edge... I'm fighting for a Cold War medal for everyone who served our country during the Cold War, because you were on the front lines of battling communism. Well, now we're on the front lines of battling terrorism, extremism, and we have to win. Our commitment to freedom, to tolerance, to economic opportunity has inspired people around the world... American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world... We are a good and great nation.
 * Hillary Rodham Clinton, Remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kansas City, Missouri, August 20, 2007

 * Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because ... America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist. ... One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.
 * Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015), p. 8

 * I see four core American interests in Iraq that cannot be abandoned. There must be no Afghan-like Al Qaeda takeover of wide areas. There must be no genocide (say a Shiite sweep against Sunnis). There must be no regional conflagration (for example, a Turkish invasion). And there must be no return to the old order (murderous Stalinist dictatorship). To ensure this, the United States must keep a military presence in Iraq for the foreseeable future.
 * Roger Cohen, June 17, 2007

 * We are not going to see any more US troops come home in body bags at Dover for the sake of some Cheney affiliate grabbing the petroleum in Iran's Ahvaz fields.
 * Juan Cole, May 03, 2006

 * We are situated differently in this respect from any other country. All the other great powers have a comparatively homogeneous population, close kindred in race and blood and speech, and commonly little divided in religious beliefs. Our great Nation is made up of the strong and virile pioneering stock of nearly all the countries of the world. We have a variety of race and language and religious belief.
 * Calvin Coolidge, "Ways to Peace", speech at Arlington (31 May 1926)

D

 * [ The execution of Saddam Hussein ] was an opportunity to set the world a good example of civilized behaviour in dealing with a barbarically uncivilized man... If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged... Uniquely privileged evidence on the American government's enthusiastic arming of Saddam before they switched loyalties is now snuffed out at the tug of a rope (no doubt to the relief of Donald Rumsfeld and other guilty parties -- it is surely no accident that the trial of Saddam neglected those of his crimes that might -- no, would -- have implicated them).
 * Richard Dawkins, January 3, 2007

 * The guns of Dewey in Manilla Bay were heard across Asia and Africa, they echoed through the palace at Peking and brought to the Oriental mind a new and potent force among western nations. We, in common with the countries of Europe, are striving to enter the limitless markets of the east [...] These people respect nothing but power. I believe the Philippines will be enormous markets and sources of wealth.
 * Chauncey Depew, 1900

E

 * We had saved the world from Nazism and fascism. We were wealthy and we were safe. Many thought it was time we went home. But Americans like President Harry Truman and General George Marshall saw the truth: that it would require not only America's military might, but our ingenuity, our allies, and our generosity to rebuild Europe and keep it safe from tyrants who would prey on poverty and resentment. Our leaders resisted the imperial temptation to force our will by virtue of our unmatched strength. Instead, they built bonds of trust founded on restraint, the rule of law, and good faith. They were magnanimous out of strength, not weakness. [...] We saw the power of this relationship during the Cold War, when America deterred the Soviet Union from its quest for world domination. We saw it when we established the United Nations and NATO, which have done so much for peace and human rights. After the Cold War, we saw it in Bosnia, where we helped broker a lasting peace. And we saw it again in Kosovo, where we joined our NATO allies to stop a brutal war criminal from perpetrating another campaign of ethnic cleansing.
 * John Edwards, May 23, 2007

F

 * Today the greatest menace to mankind may well be the American tendency to overrespond to heathen evils abroad, either by attacking them or by condemning them to outer darkness. The study of American foreign missions and their long-continued conditioning influence at home needs no special advocacy in an age when we get our power politics overextended into foreign disasters like Vietnam mainly through an excess of righteousness and disinterested benevolence, under a President who talks like a Baptist preacher and who inherited his disaster from a Secretary of State who was also a ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church. Plainly the missionary impulse has contributed both to the American swelled head and to its recent crown of thorns.
 * John K. Fairbank, December 29, 1968

 * We got off to an unnecessarily bad start. But it is one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad and it is a moral and strategic imperative that we give it our best shot.
 * Thomas Friedman, November 30, 2003

G

 * The directness and naturalness of the American is the most enviable of his traits. It gives the sense of a man who is born free.
 * Alfred George Gardiner, Leaves in the Wind, p. 101

 * [ The United States has ] certainly at a high level, gone to extremes to protect innocent civilians. Where they've made mistakes, and mistakes have been made, in Kosovo, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, apologies have followed. The United States, in general, has accepted and tried its best, with the assistance of military lawyers, has tried its best to avoid violating international humanitarian law.
 * Richard Goldstone, October 23, 2009

 * The war is an immoral abomination that we'll pay for for decades to come. We're paying for it now at the rate of 100 kids a month while Bush plays politics with it. [...] I've always thought that they were bad people with evil intent - and all that, it's playing out now.
 * John Grisham, September 20, 2007

H

 * For all the propaganda of al Jazeera, the wounded pride of the Arab Street, or the vitriol of the Western Left, years from now the truth will remain that our soldiers did not come to plunder or colonize, but were willing to die for others' freedom when few others would. Neither Michael Moore nor Noam Chomsky can change that, because it is not opinion, but truth...
 * Victor Davis Hanson, June 30, 2006

 * To remain the world's shining city on a hill and beacon of hope to many, we should have our arms open to those who are fleeing oppression and seeking safety, not turning them away at the door.
 * Randy Hultgren, Statement on Executive Order (2017)

 * In a little place called El Salvador, a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, provided that little shield around that government, while they stood up and had free elections and brought freedom to El Salvador... that lady in El Salvador who stood there in the line for the elections... she had a bullet hole in her arm and she was asked, do you want to go to the aid station, and she said, yes, but first, I vote.
 * Duncan Hunter, December 9, 2007

I

 * Never has America been more alone in spreading democracy's promise. [...] It is the last country with a mission, a mandate and a dream, as old as its founders. All of this may be dangerous, even delusional, but it is also unavoidable. It is impossible to think of America without these properties of self-belief.
 * Michael Ignatieff, June 26, 2005

J

 * You start to see — the more times I have been to Washington, the more times you talk to somebody about, we have got to get money for AIDS orphans, or we have to get money for — whether it be any kind of response to any tragedy, often, the answer is, well, we're at — we are at war right now. A lot of money's going to war right now. We don't have — so — so, you start to look at it in a different way. And, so, whether you're for or against the war, you can certainly see that the amount of money being spent at war and the amount of money we are not spending in countries and dealing with situations that could end up in conflict if left unassisted, and then cause war. So, you know — so, our priorities are quite strange. So, we're not — we are missing a lot of opportunities to do a lot of the good that America is used to doing, has a history of doing. And we're not able to be as generous. We're not able to be on the forefront of all of these wonderful things as much.
 * Angelina Jolie, June 20, 2006

K

 * American post-World War II policy is in this respect devoid of artifice or deception. The American mind set, the minds of our leaders or of the people, was entirely the mind set of an emancipator. In such a mind set, one need not feel or act superior, or believe one is imposing one's ethos or values on others, since one senses naturally that others cannot doubt the emancipator's righteous cause anymore than his capacities. In this respect, the American role as superpower, particularly in the early postwar years, is very analogous to the role that can be attributed to a professor, mentor, or other type of emancipator.
 * Paul Kattenburg, 1980

 * There is a difference between questioning policy and questioning motives. [...] no one should poison the public square by attacking the patriotism of opponents [...] Let me say it plainly: I not only concede, but I am convinced that President Bush believes genuinely in the course he urges upon us.
 * Ted Kennedy, September 27, 2002

 * There was a time, not so long ago, when the might of our alliances was a driving force in the survival and the success of freedom... America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances... let there be no doubt, this country is united in its determination to defeat terrorism...
 * John Kerry, May 27, 2004

 * My whole opinion about Americans changed completely while escaping from North Korea. While I was on my way to South Korea, I got caught by Chinese cops and was about to be sent back to North Korea. But thanks to some Americans from a non-profit organization, I was released from the Chinese prison holding North Korean refuges in order to send them back to North Korea. When I first found out about this, I couldn't believe that Americans helped and saved my life. They were so different from the kind of Americans were supposed to be. I couldn't believe that Americans took their time and money in order to help me of different race and nationality. It was hard for me to believe that Americans donated their money to help North Korean refugees like me. At first, I didn't believe all of this. But when my parents who had escaped before me and arrived in Thailand told me all about this in detail, I was so touched. I haven't forgotten how grateful I am since then. To this day, I still think that Americans are the people who saved my life.
 * Yoo-sung Kim, as quoted in "How North Koreans view mixed marriages: Attitudes are changing" (1 July 2015), NK News.

 * The default position of leftists like, say, Michael Moore and many writers at The Nation, is that America is essentially a malignant, imperialistic force in the world and the use of American military power is almost always wrong. Liberals have a more benign, and correct, view of America's role in the world and tend to favor the use of military force if it is exercised judiciously, as a last resort, and in a multilateral context--with U.N. approval or through NATO. The first Gulf War, the overthrow of the Taliban and the Kosovo intervention met these criteria; Bush's Iraq invasion clearly did not.
 * Joe Klein, April 14, 2006

 * Fundamentally I don't see how the government of my country has done anything whatsoever to address and correct the root causes of international terrorism. Quite the contrary; every action I can see seems almost designed to have the opposite effect — as if orchestrated to maximize the finances of those who make armaments, by maximizing the number of people who now hate me personally for actions that I do not personally condone. How can I be a proud citizen of a country that unilaterally pulls out of widely accepted treaties, that refuses to accept a world court, that flouts fair trade with shameful policies regarding steel and agriculture, and that almost blindly supports Israel's increasingly unjustifiable occupation? And worst of all, I find that my leaders, including you, are calling for war against a sovereign nation that we suspect to be corrupt, thereby (even if our suspicions are correct) undermining all precedents against unilateral action by other countries who might in future decide that our own policies are wrong. If we peremptorily strike country X, why shouldn't country X have a right to do the same to us, and to our children and grandchildren in future years?
 * Donald Knuth, September 2002

 * In these most recent 20 years -- the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world -- America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved -- and resulted in -- the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq. The two Balkan interventions -- as well as the failed 1992-93 Somalia intervention to feed starving African Muslims (43 Americans were killed) -- were humanitarian exercises of the highest order, there being no significant U.S. strategic interest at stake. In these 20 years, this nation has done more for suffering and oppressed Muslims than any nation, Muslim or non-Muslim, anywhere on Earth. Why are we apologizing?
 * Charles Krauthammer, "Obama Distorts America's Stance on Muslims" at washingtonpost.com, January 30, 2009.

 * I understand the bombings brought the war to its end. I think it was something that couldn't be helped. [...] Luckily Hokkaido was not occupied. In the worst case, Hokkaido could have been taken by the Soviet Union. [...] I don't hold a grudge against the United States.
 * Fumio Kyuma, June 30, 2007

L

 * America is a multi-ethnic and religious nation, a country of freedom.
 * Ali Al Lami, as quoted in "Iraqis fighting ISIS alongside U.S. troops criticize new ban on entering U.S." (25 January 2017), CBS News

 * Everything which the Arab reality offers that is generous, open and creative is crushed by regimes whose only anxiety is to perpetuate their own power and self-serving interest. And what is often worse is to see that the West remains insensitive to the daily tragedy while at the same time accommodating, not to say supporting, the ruling classes who strangle the free will and aspirations of their people.
 * Abdellatif Laabi (Moroccan writer), Jeune Afrique magazine, September 5, 1990, cited by Adel Darwish and Gregory Alexander in "Unholy Babylon, The Secret History of Saddam's War" (Victor Gollenz Ltd London 1991): p. 71

 * In its advocacy of the Monroe Doctrine the United States considers its own interests. The integrity of other American nations is an incident, not an end. While this may seem based on selfishness alone, the author of the Doctrine had no higher or more generous motive in its declaration. To assert for it a nobler purpose is to proclaim a new doctrine.
 * Robert Lansing, June 1914

 * The drivel about Kosovo intervention being a manifestation of America's relentless pursuit of self-interest is just ridiculous.
 * Michael Lerner, April 5, 1999

 * Had I won the Nobel Peace Prize, what I would have done is awarded it to either the Bush administration for successfully disarming the nuclear program of North Korea and working diligently to do the same thing in Iran, or I would have awarded it to General Petraeus and the United States military. If there has ever been an engine for peace in the world, it is the United States military.
 * Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh (12 October 2007).

 * We make no hypocritical pretense of being interested in the Philippines solely on account of others. While we regard the welfare of those people as a sacred trust, we regard the welfare of the American people first. We see our duty to ourselves as well as to others. We believe in trade expansion. By every legitimate means within the province of government and constitution we mean to stimulate the expansion of our trade and open new markets.
 * Henry Cabot Lodge, September 21, 1900

M

 * America has evolved a model for this new free world... America has demonstrated that peoples of the East and peoples of the West may walk side by side in mutual respect and with mutual benefit. The history of our sovereignty there has now the full confidence of the East.
 * Douglas MacArthur, radio address (2 September 1945)

 * I don't mean to sound sappy, but the thing that I feel most overwhelmingly is just how humbling it is to be alongside the American troops that are here. The American troops that are here, I believe from what I've seen them do, that they can do any military mission that is assigned to them, and I believe that whatever the U.S. military tries to do, even in those hard places in southern Afghanistan, they will do. But, you can also tell when you're here, that even if everything goes perfectly on the military side, that may very well do that, that will only determine about 20% of the variables that need to be determined in terms of the success of this war effort. It really is up to the Afghan people. Americans will clear that space, it is humbling to see them in action. They're working so hard and they're so good at it, but whether or not the Afghans step up is gonna be whether or not there's something that you can really think of as a victory here.
 * Rachel Maddow, "Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Deadline" (6 July 2010), Raw Story

 * I've never met anyone who told me they were angry at China or France or Russia for failing to help them. Where people are desperate, it is still America they count on, whether they love or scorn it, and America they blame when aid does not come. They know that the United States is the one country with both the power and predilection to stand up for them.
 * Tom Malinowski, "What America Stood For" (25 March 2017), The Atlantic

 * It’s now a long, confused history. [...] the price of defending our nation cannot be spending years — at a cost of precious lives and hundreds of billions of dollars — in a vain attempt to give people who despise us a way of life they don’t want.
 * Andrew C. McCarthy/National Review, September 4, 2009

 * Finally, it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.
 * William McKinley, December 21, 1898

 * Boy, America has had a lot of shitty presidents. Just take a stroll down repressed memory land and look at that police line-up from November 22, 1963 through January 1992... What no one is saying is the one overarching reason [George W. Bush]'s the worst: the Bush administration is the first that doesn't even mean well.
 * Peter Mehlman, June 20, 2007

 * Under conditions of democracy, to be frank and honest about the purpose and nature of imperialism would be counterproductive to these aims... in the United States, empire does not even exist; "we" are merely protecting the causes of freedom, democracy, and justice worldwide.
 * Monthly Review, November 1991

 * We went into Iraq at the invitation of the government, not as an invasion.
 * Dick Morris, August 22, 2008

 * We haven't [helped pay for schools, roads and even day care centers]. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?
 * Patty Murray, December 2002

 * Sixty years ago, at dawn on June 25, the Korean War broke out when Communist North Korea invaded the Republic of Korea. In response, 16 member countries of the United Nations, including the United States, joined with the Republic of Korea to defend freedom. Over the next three years of fighting, about 37,000 Americans lost their lives. They fought for the freedom of Koreans they did not even know, and thanks to their sacrifices, the peace and democracy of the republic were protected... On the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, I remain grateful to America for having participated in the war. At that time, the Republic of Korea was one of the most impoverished countries, with an annual per capita income of less than $40. In 2009, my country became a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Development Assistance Committee, the first aid recipient to become a donor and in only one generation.
 * Myung-bak Lee, "A Note of Thanks" (25 June 2010), The Los Angeles Times, California

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 * America means fair play for all men.
 * Thomas Nast, "The Chinese Question" (1871), Harper's Weekly (18 February 1871)

 * Whether we like it or not, we must go on slaughtering the natives... and [take] what muddy glory lies in wholesale killing til they have learned to respect our arms. The more difficult task of getting them to respect our intentions will follow.
 * New York Criterion, 1899

 * In an Inaugural Address striking for its idealism [ George W. Bush ] told Americans that spreading liberty around the world was "the calling of our time" and that the nation's "vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one."
 * New York Times, January 21, 2005

 * America still fields what is arguably the most disciplined, humane military force in history, a model of restraint compared with ancient armies that wallowed in the spoils of war or even more-modern armies that heedlessly killed civilians and prisoners.
 * Newsweek, MSNBC (12 June 2006).

 * Two years ago I went to Iraq as an unabashed believer in toppling Saddam Hussein. I knew his regime well from previous visits; WMDs or no, ridding the world of Saddam would surely be for the best, and America's good intentions would carry the day. What went wrong?
 * Rod Nordland/Newsweek, June 2005

 * The CIA, in its present state, is viewed by its Capitol Hill overseers as incapable of targeting Osama bin Laden. That leads to an irresistible impulse to satisfy Americans by pulverizing Afghanistan, a desire heightened by Friday's refusal of the country's Taliban rulers to give up bin Laden.
 * Robert Novak, September 17, 2001

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 * America has never fought a war against a democracy, and our closest friends are governments that protect the rights of their citizens.
 * Barack Obama, December 10, 2009

 * We have set ourselves back in terms of the leverage we have in the world, in terms of our ability to persuade other countries to cooperate with us. And so we're gonna have to fix a very difficult situation. But the one thing I always remind people, because they get discouraged, they say, you know, people around the world, they're expressing hatred towards America. You know, people outside of this country are expressing disappointment because they got high expectations for America. And they want America to lead, they want America to lead through our values, and through our ideals and through our example. But they have high expectations of us because, I think, that this country is still the last best hope on earth.
 * Barack Obama on The Late Show with David Letterman, April 09, 2007

 * We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and now Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can.
 * Barack Obama, June 4, 2009

 * It's a different situation. The Afghan people by and large like America. They like us. They hated the Russians. But they fear the Taliban because they don't have security. [...] I submit we give it one more shot. We give McChrystal the 40,000 he needs and we see what happens.
 * Bill O'Reilly, September 22, 2009

 * Bill O'Reilly: Talking Points believes America, Britain and our allies that tried to do a noble thing in Iraq. We despise those who are rooting against the effort. But we understand the frustration that good Americans feel over a country that may not want to be free despite the president's opposite belief. Tony Snow: ...The Iraqi people when posed with a choice between al Qaeda and the Iraqi government they've chosen the Iraqi government. Think about Anbar Province. Last November written off. Everybody said it's wholly owned and operated by al Qaeda. But when it became clear we were putting more forces in, what happened? The local tribal leaders said, thank God you're here, they're killing our people. They're invaders, they're desecrating Islam. They are humiliating our people. Help us out. What's happened now? They've put al Qaeda to route and all of a sudden Anbar is something that we're pointing to as a success story. Markets are opening, people have political rights. And you know what they're saying to Americans? They're saying thank you. Same thing is starting to go on in Diyala Province, similarly in neighborhoods in Baghdad. Same pattern. … what they need is a sense you are there to stay, you are in there to fight and you are in there to win. Just told you about Anbar. I told you about Diyala. There is safety in the north, there is safety in the south. --July 12, 2007

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 * I am continually amused by the Communist argument that the United States tries to prevent the less-developed countries from industrializing in order to keep them subservient to herself. In our extended dealings with the American aid authorities, we have never found this to be the case; on the contrary, they have helped us with a wide variety of industrial projects, including those that compete directly with American industries. The Americans have enough sense to prefer strong and prosperous friends, and they realize that their most lucrative international trade is with other highly industrialized countries, not with weak and backward ones.
 * Muhammad Reza Pahlavi (1961) Mission for my Country, London, page 301

 * We are a nation at war and in many [ways] the reasons for war are fights over energy sources, which is nonsensical when you consider that domestically we have the supplies ready to go.
 * Sarah Palin, August 29, 2008

 * You’ll be there to defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans … America can never go back to that false sense of security that came before September 11, 2001.
 * Sarah Palin, September 11, 2008

 * There's a great deal of criticism about the United States, but there is one thing that nobody criticizes the United States. Nobody thinks the United States went to strike against Iraq in order to gain land or water or oil, nobody thinks America has any ambitions about real estate. As it happened in the 20th century, the American boys went to fight in two world wars, many of them lost their lives. The United States won the wars, won the land, but you gave back every piece of it. America didn't keep anything out of her victories for herself. You gave back Japan, an improved Japan, you gave Germany, an improved Germany, you've heard the Marshall Plan. And today, I do not believe there is any serious person on earth who thinks the United States, whether you agree or don't agree with this strike, has any egoistic or material purposes in the war against Iraq. The reason is, for this strike, that you cannot let the world run wild. And people who are coming from different corners of our life, attack and kill women and children and innocent people, just out of the blue. And I think the whole world is lucky that there is a United States that has the will and the power to handle the new danger that has arrived on the 21st century.
 * Shimon Peres, speech (20 October 2004).

 * The cry that we have entered upon our imperial course in order to benefit the native populations in the lands that we have conquered is an old one. ... I have before me McKinley's proclamation to the Filipinos, and I have placed it side by side with a proclamation of the King of Assyria, written eighteen hundred years before Christ. A man would think that McKinley had plagiarized the idea from Asshurbanipal. ... Each act of aggression, each new expedition of conquest is prefaced by a pronouncement containing a moral justification and an assurance to the victims of the imperial aggression that all is being done for their benefit.
 * Richard F. Pettigrew, Imperial Washington (1922), pp. 345-347

 * Far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector. We have sent men and women from the armed forces of the United States to other parts of the world throughout the past century to put down oppression. We defeated Fascism. We defeated Communism. We saved Europe in World War I and World War II. We were willing to do it, glad to do it. We went to Korea. We went to Vietnam. All in the interest of preserving the rights of people. And when all those conflicts were over, what did we do? Did we stay and conquer? Did we say, 'Okay, we defeated Germany. Now Germany belongs to us? We defeated Japan, so Japan belongs to us'? No. What did we do? We built them up. We gave them democratic systems which they have embraced totally to their soul. And did we ask for any land? No. The only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead, and that is the kind of nation we are.
 * Colin Powell, as quoted in MTV Global Discussion (14 February 2002).

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 * Whatever the motives of George W Bush, for Tony Blair, the war against Saddam was supposed to be another demonstration that military force could be applied to produce good outcomes by removing one of the worst tyrannies on the planet.
 * Andrew Rawnsley, May 28, 2006

 * The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression — to preserve freedom and peace.
 * Ronald Reagan, March 23, 1983

 * The US has its own national problems - some of them serious - as well as global challenges such as terrorism and nuclear proliferation. So what the US wants is a peaceful and prosperous Latin America. This has been the aim of US foreign policy in the last 25 years.
 * Otto Reich, March 30, 2006

 * The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.
 * Condoleezza Rice, January 2000

 * Writes a soldier: "I’m a Christian and a soldier. I take offense from your writings. I believe in freedom of speech, but that comes with the responsibilty of tempering it as well. You make it sound like soldiers are evil murderers. Who do you think protects your right to free speech? Who do you think lays their lives on the line every day for people like you who don’t appreciate the sacrifice that soldiers make for you and your family. You may not agree with the War in Iraq, but that doesn’t mean you have to treat soldiers like they are evil. I hope that one day you rot in Hell." I replied: Sir, do you really think that Bush or Obama can give you the right, and absolve you of the sin, of killing innocent people? That category includes not just civilians, by the way, but also soldiers defending their country from foreign invaders. I hope that one day you go to Heaven.
 * Lew Rockwell, June 4, 2009

 * No people in the history of the world have sacrificed as much for liberty. The lives of hundreds of thousands of America's sons and daughters were laid down during the last century to preserve freedom, for us and for freedom loving people throughout the world. America took nothing from that Century's terrible wars - no land from Germany or Japan or Korea; no treasure; no oath of fealty. America's resolve in the defense of liberty has been tested time and again. It has not been found wanting, nor must it ever be. America must never falter in holding high the banner of freedom.
 * Mitt Romney, December 6, 2007

 * These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way. We need to make it unmistakably clear that we will do whatever it takes, for however long it takes, to defeat radical Islamic terrorism. We will punish -- we will punish their allies, like Iran -- and we will stand with our allies, like Israel.
 * Marco Rubio, February 19, 2010

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 * Eyes are shedding tears, and the heart feels pain and sadness for our people in Lebanon due to the bombing, terror and clear aggression that the Zionist enemy conducts and that is shielded by a number of countries, including the United States.
 * Muqtada al-Sadr, July 14, 2006

 * Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.
 * Edward Said, Orientalism (1978)

 * Building a democracy, especially in this part of the world, which we did not know any form of democratic government, is very difficult. But we are making progress, and we are moving along, thanks to the help of this wonderful U.S. military who have come from a far to help us and give us a chance to build a decent nation here. [...] Seriously, this is no pandering, these people have saved us from tyranny, from genocide.
 * Barham Salih, June 10, 2009

 * The struggle must continue til the misguided creatures there shall have their eyes bathed in enough blood to cause their vision to be cleared, and to understand that not only is resistance useless, but that those whom they are now holding as enemies have no purpose toward them except to consecrate them to liberty and to open to them a way to happiness.
 * The Salt Lake City Tribune editorial, 1899

 * There are Islamic extremists who do want to destroy America... we have Osama bin Laden on the run, and there's no question that Americans are for justice.
 * Ed Schultz, July 16, 2007

 * The scale of the tragedy that has befallen Lebanon is a result of the continuous Israeli attacks, which have reached the point where patience can no longer bear. It is not possible to stand with folded hands before them. The international community must take the intitiative to impose an immediate ceasefire and to halt this horrific tragedy. The Muslim world and all peace-loving people will not excuse the parties that put obstacles in the way of this.
 * Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, July 30, 2006

 * Never before in modern history has a country dominated the earth so totally as the United States does today. [...] American idols and icons are shaping the world from Katmandu to Kinshasa, from Cairo to Caracas. Globalization wears a 'Made in USA' label. [...] The Americans are acting, in the absence of limits put to them by anybody or anything, as if they own a blank check in their 'McWorld.' Strengthened by the end of communism and an economic boom, Washington seems to have abandoned its self-doubts from the Vietnam trauma. America is now the Schwarzenegger of international politics: showing off muscles, obtrusive, intimidating.
 * Der Spiegel, 1997

 * Republicans sure don't care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where are you going to get that money? Are you going to tell us lies like you're telling us today? Is that how you're going to fund the war? You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement.
 * Pete Stark, October 18, 2007

 * From the dawn of history the oppressor has always insisted that oppression was good for the oppressed.
 * Moorfield Storey, "The duty of the United States towards the Philippine Islands: A reply to Secretary Taft" (1908), p. 3

 * It's threatening enough when government uses force in America, but the really big guns come out when government intervenes overseas. The Cold War may be over, but since then we've still sent soldiers to Somalia, Panama, Bosnia, and a hundred other countries in the name of "keeping the peace". Sometimes we seem to bomb first and ask questions later. We bombed this factory in Sudan... Our interventions may even make America less safe, more vulnerable to terrorism, because they tend to make us new enemies.
 * John Stossel, January 1, 2001

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 * This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America.
 * Fred Thompson, August 17, 2007

 * And as for a flag for the Philippine Province, it is easily managed. We can have a special one - our States do it: we can have just our usual flag, with the white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones.
 * Mark Twain, February 1901

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 * Regime change, substituting one tyrant for another tyrant, with the biggest tyrant pulling the puppet strings of all the tyrants, does not make for peace... When we turn right around and say that our God condones the killing of innocent civilians as a necessary means to an end. We say that God understands collateral damage... We say that God will bless the shock and awe as we take over unilaterally another country... making a preemptive strike in the name of God. We cannot see how what we are doing is the same thing al-Qaeda is doing under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem...
 * Jeremiah Wright, April 13, 2003

 * We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye... We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
 * Jeremiah Wright, September 16, 2001 video

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 * It wants to stop being seen as the supporter of Muslim tyrants and instead become the champion of Muslim freedoms. President Bush and his secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, are transforming American policy in this realm, and while some of the implementation has been spotty, the general thrust is clear and laudable.
 * Fareed Zakaria/Newsweek, June 6, 2005

 * The American system expanded peace and prosperity throughout the world in a way the human race had never experienced before.
 * Peter Zeihan, interview with Jen Gerson (March 2015)

Misattributed

 * America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.
 * According to Michael A. Ledeen, this line has been falsely attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville by Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan. See Tocqueville on American Character (2001), p. 25

 * America is great because America is good.
 * without attribution, by Hillary Clinton in her acceptance speech at the Demcoratic Convention (July 29, 2016).

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Zig Ziglar

Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (November 6 1926 – November 28 2012) was an American self-help author and speaker.

Quotes

 * You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
 * Secrets of Closing the Sale (1984)

 * Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
 * As quoted in Created for Excellence : 12 keys to Godly Success (1996) by Kevin Baerg, p. 25

 * The world's most deadly disease is "hardening of the attitudes."
 * As quoted in Secrets of Superstar Speakers: Wisdom from the Greatest Motivators of Our Time (2000) by Lilly Walters, p. 96

 * What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
 * As quoted in Secrets of Superstar Speakers: Wisdom from the Greatest Motivators of Our Time (2000) by Lilly Walters, p. 96

 * The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
 * As quoted in Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators (2004) by Dave Stone, p. 143

 * Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting — in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard — reaching for the highest that is in us — becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
 * As quoted in The Subconscious Diet : It's Not What You Put in Your Mouth; It Is What You Put in Your Mind (2005) by Hugh B. Sanders, p. 104

 * Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
 * As quoted in Trigger Events – How To Find Your Next Customer (2007) by Alen Majer, p. 22

 * People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.
 * Better than Good: Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live (2007)

 * If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
 * As quoted in The Power of Respect : Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success (2009) by Deborah Norville, p. 65

See You at the Top (2000)

 * The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad. Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.
 * Variant: Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

 * You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily — you are the only one who can do it permanently.
 * p. 164

 * Go so far as you can see and when you get there you will always be able to see farther. … as you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go — you do change your direction to get there.
 * p. 164; Variant: When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

 * Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

 * When you give a man a dole, you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him of his destiny.

 * A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.

 * Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.

 * Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

 * There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

 * Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success.

 * If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.

 * Happiness is not pleasure — it is victory.

Misattributed

 * Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
 * Ziglar has often used this saying, but it originates with Phillips Brooks, as quoted in Primary Education (1916) by Elizabeth Peabody.

 * Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
 * Though sometimes credited to Ziglar on the internet, this is credited to Marie Fraser in Quote Unquote (1977) by Lloyd Cory

Quotes about Ziglar

 * Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.
 * Jack Covert, in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time (2009) by Jack Covert, Todd Sattersten, p. 117

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Talk:The Strangerhood

Please help filling up this quotes page! - 69.216.232.38 22:16, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Quotes
Just fill it up as you go. - 68.23.42.11 00:06, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello?
Isn't anyone helping this page? - 68.23.36.253 1 July 2005 04:25 (UTC)
 * Just because there isn't stuff being added every few days, doesn't mean that no-one will. Remember, there are only a small number of episodes to draw quotes from, so far. And please do not take off the delete notices for those redirects. NO-ONE is going to type "Sam (The Strangerhood)" into the search box, when they could just type in "The Strangerhood", or "Strangerhood".--DooMDrat 1 July 2005 06:20 (UTC)

Removal of song lyrics
I removed the song lyrics as they are probably a copyright violation, and aren't really relevant to a Quotes page.--DooMDrat 16:42, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

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User:Jimbo Wales

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Edith Cavell

Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse, humanitarian and spy. She is celebrated for helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I, for which she was arrested. She was court-martialled, found guilty of treason and executed.

Quotes

 * I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.
 * As quoted in "Edith Cavell" by Helen Judson in The American Journal of Nursing (July 1941), p. 871

 * Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.
 * As quoted in The Economist (15 October 2010), p. 107

Last statements (1915)

 * Last statements prior to her execution (11 October 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan, in Source Records of the Great War (1923), edited by Charles F. Horne, Vol. III

 * I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

 * I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end... Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty... This time of rest has been a great mercy.

 * They have all been very kind to me here. But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
 * Though said the night before her execution this statement has often been presented as having been her last. Variants of these words have sometimes been misattributed to Florence Nightingale. The variant "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone" is inscribed beneath Cavell's statue at St. Martin's Place in London.

Quotes about Cavell

 * It was a pity that Miss Cavell had to be executed, but it was necessary. She was judged justly. We hope it will not be necessary to have any more executions.
 * German Secretary for Foreign Affairs Arthur Zimmermann, as quoted in Source Records of the Great War (1923), edited by Charles F. Horne, Vol. III

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User:AnnaAniston~enwikiquote

Its shameful, yes, but AnnaAniston came to wikiquote via wikipedia.

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User talk:82.70.194.38

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Talk:Bob Dylan

unsourced quotes
Why has no one listed any sources for these quotations? This is a quick and easy way to get on the fast road to misquotation and (worse) misattribution. This page already has some notable examples, such as the one about a day 'above ground' being a 'good day'. Dylan may have said this, but who hasn't? This is pure cliche and doesn't belong here.
 * (11:21, 12 May 2005)

Future & Past "Attributed Quote"
If I'm not mistaken, the quote "Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past." is nearly verbatim from a lyric of Dylan's, I think from Love and Theft. So I'm placing it in the lyrics section.

The Times They Are A-Changin'
I'm not very comfortable with the Times quote. My view is that quotations from verse should be limited to short, memorable passages of one or two lines, consisting of original material, exclusive of allusions to other text, and which have entered the popular consciousness in greater or lesser degree. I would argue that the one line from Times that fits that description is the title line itself. It's a great song, but there's not a single verse that stands out from the others in such a way that it ought to be privileged here. Furthermore, the Biblical lines about the first being last disqualify this excerpt from inclusion, in my opinion. Thoughts?

Is it possible for anyone to edit this thing? Can I just say doodododododododo?

Yes....yes you can...

that's the concept of a wiki

That seems nuts, anyone can just come along and ruin the whole damn thing.

 * The damage that can be done is usually very limited in duration and extent, as reverting vandalism is usually even easier than doing it. As Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have proven, substantial progress in many ways can be made on the assumption that the majority of people, who are not inclined to be extremely obnoxious vandals, can usually keep in check the few who are. ~ Kalki 10:55, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup
I've added a cleanup tag to this article because it contains a slew of lyrics quotes that aren't formatted and without proper source lines per Templates/People. Specifically, the quotes should be removed, the song titles should be on a separate line, and (for lyrics) the album titles and release years should be mentioned. Linking to existing Wikipedia articles on the song and/or album titles would be helpful, too. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:08, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm removing the cleanup tag because we have done everything that Jeff asked. I still think the article could use some work, and some reorganzation, but we don't need the tag to spur us on for that. --Ubiquity 12:10, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

There are still songs that don't have links and there good quotes that missed in here (For example I can say that "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" Still have a lot of great quotes) I linked the songs till Blonde on Blonde but didn't do this for others so someone must do it (I may do it in future) and added some quotes and I think that some of the quotes should not be here but I won't delete anything from here Sorry for my English! - KiBattosai 19:38, 06 June 2010

Use of
Be careful when using the wsongatt template.  ""  is a convenient shorthand for:
 * ** "song", ' 'album' ', year

but it doesn't guarantee that the links are correct! Especially with song titles it's easy to link to something that's not what you wanted, or to create redlinks. So, don't use 'wsongatt unless: Thanks. --Ubiquity 12:22, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * a wikipedia article on the song already exists whose title is exactly the same as the name of the song, and
 * a wikipedia article on the album already exists whose title is exactly the same as the name of the album.
 * In the article's current format, there is no need to use this template at all.

Quotation marks
I've removed the quotation marks around the song titles because they weren't necessary and looked messy.

Someone's put the quote marks back in. Well, if you want it to look shit and amateurish then fine.

 * Oddly enough, opinions vary. I think song titles without quotation marks look amateurish. I do agree it looks cleaner without them, and I've seen it done both ways here. If you hadn't been an anonymous user, I would have discussed it with you before reverting. Does anyone else have an opinion? The Wikiquote style guide doesn't say, but they do point to the Chicago Manual of Style for matters not covered, and the CMS would go for the quotation marks. --01:49, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

 * We've been leaving out/removing quotation marks for the past year or two. Unfortunately, Manual of style lags Templates and its subpages, which tend to show the latest style practices. We really must synchronize these critters. ☺ ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Lyric Question
Was Bob Dylan the first to come up with that "How many roads must a man walk" line? I'm quite certain I've heard that elsewhere (perhaps from Dolly Parton?). Is the line original to Dylan?

 * The song is original. I'm sure other people have asked that question, both before and after Dylan. But Dolly Parton was only 16 when Dylan first sang the song, so he didn't get it from her. There is some information about (unfounded) plagiarism claims at Blowin' in the Wind. --Ubiquity 14:51, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, when and why did he change his name to Bob Dylan? 68.54.145.90 03:05, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

 * You can find out the answer to this and a lot of other questions about Dylan by reading the Wikipedia article on Dylan. --Ubiquity 14:51, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

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 * All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
 * Interviewed by Paul J Robbins, November 8, 1965. http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/65-nov08.htm XZYOE 22:16, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

 * High? Me? Never.

 * Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

 * Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

 * Folk music is a word I can't use. Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

 * I told you I'm not commenting on whether it is weedpunk.

 * I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

 * I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

 * I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

 * I think of myself more as a song and dance man, you know.
 * Press conference in San Francisco on December 3rd, 1965. as a answer to the question: "Do you think of yourself primarely as a singer or as a poet?"

 * I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

 * I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

 * If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

 * I started smoking at 11 years old an' only stopped once to catch my breath.

 * Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

--> Interview with Kurt Loder, Rolling Stone, June 21, 1984: "You can reload your rifle, and that moment you're reloading it, that's peace. (Jonathan Cott: Bob Dylan - The Essential Interviews, p. 291.)
 * The moment when you reload your rifle.
 * A definition of peace.

 * What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

 * When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it— don't back down and don't give up— then you're going to mystify a lot of folks. (Interview with Ron Rosenbaum, Playboy, March 1978; reproduced in "Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews," Jonathan Cott, ed., 2006)

 * Backstage at LiveAid, it was a total sausage fest, I was scared for my life...I wont say who impressed me most that night but his wife is a lucky woman (Interview by NME in 2008)

 * What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

 * Interviewer: They say Dylan never talks. Dylan: Well, what the hell is there to say?

 * Nostalgia is death.

 * I'm not disconnected from anything because of a force, just habit, it's just the way I am. I don't know, I have an idea that it's easier to be disconnected than to be connected. I've got a huge hallelujah for all the people who are connected, that's great, but I can't do that. I've been connected so many times. Things haven't worked out right, so rather than break myself up, I just don't get connected

 * Politics is entertainment. It's a sport. It's for the well groomed and well heeled. The impeccably dressed. Party animals. Politicians are interchangeable.

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Joni Madraiwiwi

Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi (born 1957) was the Vice-President of Fiji from 10 January 2005 to 5 December 2006. By profession he is a lawyer and former judge.

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 * The politicians pontificate and manoeuvre with eloquent manifestos and pronouncements saying little about the challenges we must confront.
 * Our Country at the Crossroads - 2001 Parkinson Memorial Lecture Series, 15 August 2001.

 * The issue which concern all of us as citizens of this country, irrespective of our political beliefs and ethnicity, is this: if we are to forbear all legal proceedings against the perpetrators of the events of 19 May 2000 what does that say about our sense of right and wrong? What does it say to those that were directly and indirectly harmed by their actions? Without an accounting, we encourage repetition of this conduct, make light of the pain and suffering people endured and suggest to the impressionable that such conduct is appropriate.
 * Our Country at the Crossroads - 2001 Parkinson Memorial Lecture Series, 15 August 2001.

 * With hindsight, the Samoa system with appropriate modifications ought to have been adopted. The complete acceptance of western democratic structures, apart from the appointment of Bose Levu Vakaturaga appointees in the Senate, in some respect was in advance of the understanding of democratic principles, particularly in the rural areas.
 * Our Country at the Crossroads - 2001 Parkinson Memorial Lecture Series, 15 August 2001.

 * We have survived bitter divisions in our society. Reconciliation requires us to put aside our differences and forgive the injuries done to us just as justice is essential to that equation. Those who have done wrong and broken the law must be punished. There can be no setting to rights or settling of accounts without that element. Until that is done there will be no finality to our collective nightmare. Until we all accept that simple fact the sense of hurt and betrayal continue.
 * Our Country at the Crossroads - 2001 Parkinson Memorial Lecture Series, 15 August 2001.

 * It is time to move forward together. Stronger for the bitter experiences we have shared, wiser for the suffering inflicted on us and more compassionate for having the capacity to forgive. For all its faults and cruelties, Fiji remains a country full of promise and hope simply demonstrated by the goodwill that has endured and the love we have for this land that is our home.
 * Our Country at the Crossroads - 2001 Parkinson Memorial Lecture Series, 15 August 2001.

 * Not five generations distant, Fijians were cannibalizing each other. The missionaries and the colonial administration imposed a veneer of civilization on their native subjects. However, it is not apparent that they imparted to them any profound understanding of the process involved in the maintenance and upholding of the law.
 * Siwati Memorial Lecture, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 24 September 2004.

 * Ultimately, the best guarantor of the rule of law is not the state and the branches which comprise it but the recognition by people of its value and their willingness to fight for, and uphold it.
 * Siwati Memorial Lecture, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 24 September 2004.

 * Until that point (where national unity prevails) is reached, the journey to it must be seen and appreciated for what it is: in a society such as ours where divisions exist both inter-ethnically and within communities the process of nation building of which the rule of law is an integral part requires a deft balancing of priorities in a fair and inclusive manner. This allows everyone to be a part of the challenges that we need to face together. The path to this point has been tortuous and at times strained because we have invariably compromised some of the detail of the rule of law by honouring the letter if not the spirit of the decisions handed down by the courts. However, it has also been a critical learning experience where we have had to combine political reality with legal principle. The result is an imperfect one but the rule of law is stronger for having weathered these sustained assaults on it.
 * Siwati Memorial Lecture, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 24 September 2004.

 * In order to build a common identity, we must find a name with which all of us are comfortable. While I personally have no problem with the term ‘Fijian’, I recognize many others in my community are not. But let us not leave it there, let us find other options.
 * Calling for a national dialogue on an inclusive nationality adjective for all Fiji citizens
 * Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005.

 * There is no denying the powerful emotions appeals to ethnicity can arouse. We need to develop linkages that will subdue or weaken such appeals. This will lie in deepening relationships across ethnic boundaries. It cannot be forced but must be encouraged by all in any position to do so. Because we need to expand and strengthen the interethnic connections which already subsist to mitigate the siren calls of ethnicity when they are made.
 * Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005.

 * I trust you will bear in mind the deeply-held fears and insecurities Fijian have as an ethnic community. This is a subject I dwell on repeatedly because, while I do not share them, I am sufficiently Fijian to appreciate the depths of these emotions.
 * Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005.

 * One wonders whether the ethnic categorization effort at finding solutions to problems that cross ethnic boundaries. Poverty is poverty is poverty. It does not have peculiar ethnic characteristics.
 * Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005.

 * We need to try and focus less on ethnicity in this country and concentrate on trying to improve the lot of the marginalized whoever they are.
 * Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005.

 * The Spirit of Rotary is to voluntarily improve the lot of their fellow human beings because it is the ultimate calling in life. Not for reward of for personal gain, but for the satisfaction of having made a positive difference to someone else. How different would life be if those of us with more advantages could all practice these virtues? This would be a society where the strong would be just and the weak secure. It is an ideal that we can all work towards.
 * Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005.

 * It is not easy to remain motivated in the face of widespread apathy and self-indulgence.
 * Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005.

 * When national leaders address the people of Fiji in specifically Christian terms, whatever the occasion, nearly half of our people are excluded. When prayer in mixed company is uttered in terms of a purely Christian God, we unintentionally omit and diminish others present of different faiths. When we use Christian symbolism to promote reconciliation, forgiveness and unity, we discount the contribution and equally rich traditions extant in other faiths and cultural traditions.
 * Speech to a Hindu gathering, 26 March 2005.

 * Opportunity marries with circumstance and is midwife to the resultant bartering of public office. The mutuality is advantage to the parties involved merely facilitates the spread of such practices. When it reaches the point of being commonplace and is pragmatically perceived as the most practical means of getting things done, it has become systemic and difficult to eradicate.
 * Opening remarks to Transparency International Pacific Regional Meeting, 13 April 2005.

 * It will be impossible to achieve this (keeping the people together) if the elders and chiefs have their own way and are too proud of their chiefly status to not bring themselves down to the people.
 * Speech to the Lau Provincial Council, 11 May 2005.

 * This privileged position (lawyer) obliges you to remember that most of the population cannot afford your services or fees. As a consequence they are denied access to justice. It therefore behoves the legal profession to consider practical ways of alleviating this unacceptable state of affairs.
 * Speech to the Fiji Law Society, 2 July 2005.

 * It (insecurity) is a feeling that is deeply felt and is shared by most members of my community, irrespective of religion, status, education, background or place of origin.
 * Speech to the Fiji Law Society, 2 July 2005.

 * For it is only when we all believe that the Constitution and the rule of law protects all our people and their rights, can these guarantors of rights be assured.
 * Speech to the Fiji Law Society, 2 July 2005.

 * Those who decry the rule of law as a Western principle or an imported construct, misunderstand the concept. It is about abiding by a set of standards for the well-being of society as a whole.
 * Speech to the Fiji Law Society, 2 July 2005.

 * This is a small country with limited resources. Can we afford the time spent on endless debates about ethnicity and identity?
 * Opening address to the Tourism Forum at the Sheraton Resort, 7 July 2005.

 * We need to move forward and beyond the point where we endlessly pursue the demons bequeathed us by our history.
 * Opening address to the Tourism Forum at the Sheraton Resort, 7 July 2005.

 * Traditional leadership is based on ascription. In former times, there was some degree of flexibility which enabled change. This was based on prowess in war and statecraft. The British fossilised the system and traditional leaders became government functionaries. Their authority was strengthened by the colonial administration.
 * Address to the Pacific Regional Workshop on Leadership Development, Lami, Fiji, 9 July 2005.

 * The essence of traditional leadership is learned by osmosis. The next generation learns from what their elders and the current generation does. This was appropriate in a society where the pace of change was gradual.
 * Address to the Pacific Regional Workshop on Leadership Development, Lami, Fiji, 9 July 2005.

 * There will necessarily be a tension between the church and tradition on one hand and human rights on the other.
 * Address to the Pacific Regional Workshop on Leadership Development, Lami, Fiji, 9 July 2005.

 * Back then (in 1985) the issue of the day was nuclear testing, now we are faced with problems such as climate change, overfishing, deforestation, shipments of radioactive materials through Pacific waters and nuclear proliferation. We need to remain vigilant so that we won't become victims again.
 * Address to Greenpeace, Suva, 10 July 2005.

 * Remember that the actions of a few, with commitment, can alter the course of world history.
 * Address to Greenpeace, Suva, 10 July 2005.

 * To say that power should have been returned to the Fijian chiefs is to ignore what occurred between 1874 and 1970.
 * Address to an educational workshop, Suva, 13 July 2005.

 * Indigenous rights are those, which relate to indigenous people, their way of life, their land and their resources. They are connected in nature and the birthrights of indigenous people.
 * Closing address to the Roundtable on Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, and Nationalism, Suva, 23 July 2005.

 * The (racial and cultural) difference is to be celebrated, not fried or criticised, and we are so much richer for it.
 * Message to cadets at Xavier College in Ba, Fiji, 27 July 2005.

 * Cadet corps instill discipline in its members, where you are taught basic skills such as survival in the wilderness, unarmed combat, tracking and learning how to strategise.
 * Message to cadets at Xavier College in Ba, Fiji, 27 July 2005.

 * The critical element in this equation is developing inclusiveness that envelopes all these competing priorities (of the different ethnic groups) in a manner that is fair to all. Without it we risk remaining a divided society all the more tragic for having unfulfilled our potential.
 * Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.

 * Inclusiveness is disguised by the ability to offer a sometimes disturbed community a vision of themselves and the means to achieve it together.
 * Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.

 * It is easy to decry the nature of ethnic politics in this country. We are hostages to history and the ethnic compartmentalisation that began in the colonial era.
 * Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.

 * All our communities have to make the effort to reach out to each other rather than waiting passively for gestures that may never be made. We need to write our stories and sing our songs together not necessarily in unison or in tune but in a way that makes space for all of us.
 * Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.

 * However social integration cannot be forced and not proceed at the pace that the community considers uncomfortable.
 * Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.

 * Relationships between our ethnic communities are generally good but we need to continue weaving connections to the point where they are interwoven and unbreakable.
 * Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.

 * The strength of Commonwealth lies in its diversity and it to be mindful of bearing economic, social, political and cultural systems which comprise its membership … Its commonality lies in its connection to humanity, in the main it has provided an invariable forum whose members to open and continue meaningful issues of concern.
 * Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.

 * We all belong to this country, what are we going to call ourselves? Recognizing the sensibilities of most indigenous people here about the term 'Fijian', let us find some other name. But let us not leave it unresolved because it is an important symbol of belonging here.
 * Opening address, Fiji Week celebrations, 7 October 2005.

 * Should we retain our national flag that conveys historical continuity from the days of the Cakobau government to the period of British Colonial rule, or is it time for a new one?
 * Opening address, Fiji Week celebrations, 7 October 2005.

 * We celebrate who we are although we come from different communities. We are one nation, one people. We have differences and these cause problems and tension at times but we are not on the brink of inter ethnic strife.
 * Opening address, Fiji Week celebrations, 7 October 2005.

 * There is some suggestion that the Fijian model ought to be adopted as being the first people, the host culture, the landowners and the majority of the population. I have no issue with that proposition, so long as it is acceptable to all other communities as well.
 * Opening address, Fiji Week celebrations, 7 October 2005.

 * The critical element is inclusiveness. It is only when the model we adopt and implement is one all can accept, can the prospect of genuine and lasting reconciliation be real.
 * Opening address, Fiji Week celebrations, 7 October 2005.

 * Reconciliation and forgiveness is inextricably linked to the identity and unity we develop as a nation.
 * Opening address, Fiji Week celebrations, 7 October 2005.

 * They (Indo-Fijians) came as indentured laborers to this land and were treated harshly. They had little reason to be grateful to their colonial masters and like the indigenous Fijians. The British crown colony of Fiji was funded in part from their toil, yet they were treated like second-class citizens.
 * Poppy Drive speech, 21 October 2005.

 * Who would have planted the cane, run the mills and funded the colony if they had gone to battle?
 * Poppy Drive speech, 21 October 2005.

 * This was to no doubt reaffirm Indo-Fijian bravery, they suffered greatly under indenture and were often unfairly and needlessly provoked. They bore it with fortitude and grace.
 * Poppy Drive speech, 21 October 2005.

 * When you (Military personnel) serve in uniform, you serve your country, not your mataqali, yavusa or particular vanua. You serve the larger vanua that encompasses all of us.
 * Poppy Drive speech, 21 October 2005.

 * Those of us born after that era (of World War II), or with little or no knowledge of those experiences, take freedom for granted. In fact, we give little thought because we are preoccupied with the here and now and yet we owe a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid because you (returned servicemen) paid the price in blood.
 * Poppy Drive speech, 21 October 2005.

 * Part of them (citizens of Fiji) wishes to believe that we are all one people and as a nation must move forward together. Another part of them is fearful that the hand they extend in friendship will be either spurned or crushed.
 * Opening address, Pacific Islands Political Studies Association (PIPSA), 24 November 2005.

 * We must begin to trust each other if this country is to progress the way we want it to. But before that we have to lay the preparatory work to engender that trust by building relationships every day.
 * Opening address, Pacific Islands Political Studies Association (PIPSA), 24 November 2005.

 * Corruption undermines public confidence in our country and institutions. It is a huge cost to the economy. Combating it will take courage, determination and perseverance. The most effective means of doing it is by creating a climate not receptive to corruption.
 * Address to Transparency International Fiji book launch, 9 December 2005.

 * At times some of our leaders send messages that people of one single race are important and they matter only. It undermines the very fabric of our society and hurts feelings and creates a feeling of not belonging for some people.
 * Closing address to the National Youth Peace camp at Debua, 9 December 2005.

 * When I was nominated for the position of Vice President I was very unenthusiastic about it. But I took the post because it provided a powerful platform to talk on matters that are important for the country.
 * Closing address to the National Youth Peace camp at Debua, 9 December 2005.

 * It (education) broadens our minds and creates opportunities, equipping us with the skills and the knowledge to participate in the world beyond the classroom.
 * Address to Sathya Sai School in Matawalu, Ba Province, 8 February 2006.

 * It is not our background that will count but our individual actions and initiatives. Education is the great leveller: irrespective of origin, it places everyone on the same footing.
 * Address to Sathya Sai School in Matawalu, Ba Province, 8 February 2006.

 * Our country needs visionary and far-sighted leaders. People who appreciate and understand that our lives are inexplicably linked and our futures tied together. The vision must be one that is inclusive and open to everyone. It is a matter of enlightening self-interest.
 * Opening address to the Leadership Fiji 2006 program, 9 March 2006.

 * When we exclude part of the community, we deny ourselves the participation and contribution of those left out. We allow the possibility of conflict in some future time, neither scenario we can afford. Everyone, irrespective of ethnicity, has a contribution to make no matter how humble or small.
 * Opening address to the Leadership Fiji 2006 program, 9 March 2006.

 * It is not a matter of who can give the most but rather the spirit in which one participates in nation- building. And I apply that term to whatever useful exercise one is doing at any given time.
 * Opening address to the Leadership Fiji 2006 program, 9 March 2006.

 * Our ethnicity is part of us, however, it should not isolate or distance us from the community in which we live. People of different cultures cannot not live peacefully together unless they have respect for each other. I accept that seeking further integration is a challenge and it cannot be imposed or done under duress; the feeling has to come from within ourselves. To create an environment for that to happen, we have to develop situations and opportunities that place people in a position to make choices and this is one of them. And unless we begin to see our neighbours as people, as human beings rather than by ethnicity, it is difficult to shed our stereotypes of each other.
 * Opening address to the Leadership Fiji 2006 program, 9 March 2006.

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Talk:Leonard Cohen

This page needs some serious trimming. An excerpt from a poem or a novel is not the same as a quotation - it is an excerpt. A quotation ought to be a short saying of a few words that is often repeated and in general circulation. For example, Shakespeare's line about "star-crossed lovers" is so often quoted as to have become cliche. The same might be said of his advice about "all that glisters" (although this is most often mis-quoted. Likewise, Oscar Wilde's line about work being the curse of the drinking classes -- these are all quoted because they are short and memorable.  You often hear people quote the first line of Elizabeth Browning's sonnet, "How do I love thee?", but no one ever goes on to recite the remaining lines.  Most of the quotations on this page need to be cut back to reflect this.  No one walks around reciting Suzanne.  In fact, I would argue that there are at most 4 lines in the entire song that should be considered for inclusion here -- and that is a liberal estimate.

 * Well, an excerpt is not the same as a quote, but there're two issues in this regard. One, can we define what no longer qualifies as a quote. And two, even if we agree that some excerpt isn't a quote, is it ok or not to also include it in wikiquote, as it doesn't fit in any of the other wiki projects. See Village_pump. But the discussion there doesn't directly relates to this page, I think that the main issue with including songs lyrics is whether there's a problem with the copyrights. Anyway, I suggest that instead of talking about your suggestion, you should just edit the page, see the be bold article. If User:Kalki who created this page, or someone else, wouldn't like your editing, they could revert it or improve it etc. Sams 15:57, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Leonard Cohen, in my opinion, is a depressing writer with rare beautiful talent. My name is Shelby. His writing inspires sadness, but power among the hearts of people. Mr.Cohen is inspirational. I want to be a writer as a career one day, and he inspires to me that creativity can be found in anyone. Thank you. -Shelby

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 * We taught him how to dress, and he taught us how to live, forever.
 * On Irving Layton

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