"The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries."

Jose Ramos Horta, East Timorese Politician

People, Competence, Countries, Credibility

3

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries."

Explore more quotes by Jose Ramos Horta

"The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on."

Government, Education, Health, Development

"We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development."

Development, Borrowing, Future, Support

"The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly."

Government, People, Victims, Violence

"It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years."

Mind, Years

"In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development."

Development, Positive, Aggression, Fact

"Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not."

First, Open

"Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings."

Truth, Nothing, Responsibility, Will

"The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments, who have a lot of integrity, professional competence, and who have credibility in their respective countries."

People, Competence, Countries, Credibility

"We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds."

Money, Conservative, Investment, Law

"We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance."

Development, Now, Support

Exlpore more People quotes

"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

People, Loyalty

"I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

People, End

"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

People, Children, Job

"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

People, Country, Future, Result

"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

People,

"It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

People, America, Authority, Blame

"But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people."

Dan Abrams, American Journalist

People, Will

"I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful."

Dan Abrams, American Journalist

People, Day

"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance."

Dan Abrams, American Journalist

People, Talking

"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."

Dan Abrams, American Journalist

People, Hope