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"I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people."
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"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations."

"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance."

"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."
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"In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear."

"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization."

"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."
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"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."

"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."

"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."

"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."

"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."

"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."
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