Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hu Jintao

Giving developing countries greater representation and say in the UN, increasing the UN's input to the question of development and realizing the Millennium Development Goals on schedule, these should be places on the very top of the reform agenda,

Global macro-economic trends for many of these countries remain favorable.

Global is the word of the day, but there is a difference between using the word and actually living it. We're present in 60 countries today, and we have the infrastructure to follow customers throughout the world.

Jack Straw

we not only help those countries in the region which are subject to Iraqi threats and intimidation, we also deprive Saddam of his most powerful tools for keeping the Iraqi people living in fear and subjugation.

Most countries around the world, they just don't think that way. They think, 'I'm just going to get in the race and I'm just there to race.'

I think it will really take off in those countries where Formula One doesn't have a team, or a driver or a race.

I think this is exactly what countries should do. They should be transparent; they should report early.

like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region.

Dambisa Moyo

I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

I think deflation (will be an issue) particularly if the oil price drops further from this year. Some countries in Europe are more at risk, like France.

We had visitors from 20 countries last year.

James Smith

You don't expect the health of middle-aged people in these two countries to be too different, but we found that the Americans are a lot less healthy than the English.

Tony Blair

We were never going to be able at this G8 to resolve the disagreement over Kyoto, nor to renegotiate a set of targets for countries in place of the Kyoto Protocol,

Ambika Soni

We hope that this would be one of the first steps towards improving relations and more doors would soon open so the two countries can come closer.

Sebastian Coe

We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy.

We really need to look at trade in general between the United States and all countries in the world, not just one particular country.

It doesn't matter who'll be the first. The important thing is that European Union member countries give timely support to the Southeast's European goals so as to prevent the forces from the past from having room to act.

Robert Zoellick

Some countries will now need to decide whether they want to make a point, or whether they want to make progress,

Some countries want that. We think that's unacceptable.

The fact that 17 countries supported this representation, shows how important this issue is, and the depth of feeling around the world.

Western Europe has already been dragging its feet for too long about getting the Eastern European countries into our community.

Hassan Rouhani

All countries in my part of the world, we want democracy to prevail. I told the people, 'If you want American policies to stop, we need to take action.' We need to make the U.S. understand that its meddling is inappropriate.

Sandra Cisneros

I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. You know, for those of us who grew up with different countries on our block, different nationalities, you know, we moved into multiple worlds.

Wyndham Lewis

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

Donald Rumsfeld

We are always in countries at the pleasure of the host country, ... How it will evolve in the future is up to the Saudis.

Today, we are a nuclear country and we are ready to negotiate with other countries to remove their concerns.

Mario Andretti

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

John Bruton

We can demonstrate, by our own example, how E.U. freedoms, including the freedom of nationals of other E.U. countries to come and work here, has enabled us to expand our economy.

We should not go down the slippery slope of what other countries might do to terrorize detainees.

Amish Tripathi

While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.

Aravind Adiga

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

Gunnar Myrdal

During the three decades of its existence, the effectiveness of the United Nations has, on the whole, tended to decrease, particularly in the field of peace and security and, more generally, all issues in which the developed countries feel they have important stakes.

Nick Bollettieri

These smaller countries are concentrating on what they have, rather than having so much to select from. They can see what they have and give it enough financial support.