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" The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it. "
Kofi Annan
Spring
Process
Me
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" True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world. "
Maurice Saatchi
World
Independence
Point
" My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work. "
Kofi Annan
Advice
Work
Accept
" As a young African, the sense of opportunity that fills my head on a daily basis is, I suspect, reminiscent of how young Africans felt at the cusp of independence. "
Ory Okolloh
Young
Independence
Daily
" I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it. "
Kofi Annan
Stop
Moment
War
" Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them. "
Samuel West
Start
You
Independence
" I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot. "
Zoe Foster Blake
Independence
Company
My Own
" First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence. "
Rose Leslie
Myself
Feel
Home
" The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed. "
Kofi Annan
Impact
Up
Questions
" The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence. "
Tariq Ali
Own
Identity
Weakness
" Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights. "
Kofi Annan
Mistake
Respect
Security
" As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything. "
George Weinberg
Weird
Value
Independence
" It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility. "
Ted Deutch
Independence
See
Work
" In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics. "
Raul Castro
Politics
Independence
Face
" As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day. "
Najib Razak
Best
Day
Democracy
" Without U.S. independence, North America would have remained a rural, non-industrial breadbasket. Blessed as it was with natural resources, agrarian North America would have supplied cotton and beef and lumber to industrial Britain. America would thus be more like Australia - a nice enough place to live, but no kind of world power. "
Stephen Bannon
Blessed
America
World
" The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared. "
Denis McDonough
Country
Proud
Independence
" For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon. "
Amanda Foreman
War
Independence
Had
" Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea. "
Bernhard von Bulow
People
War
World
" The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence. "
William Godwin
Most
Security
Independence
" I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. "
Jackie Robinson
Independence
Me
Myself
" The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself. "
Marsha Blackburn
Yourself
American Dream
American
" Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.' "
Bill Pullman
Fox
Day
Title
" I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause. "
William Wallace
Face
Myself
Losing
" We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government. "
Carles Puigdemont
Politics
Government
People
" No single solution or actor can deal with the complex and interrelated challenges to electoral integrity arising from manipulated data, hate speech, and fake news. These phenomena are not new; they have been part of electoral cycles since the advent of democracy. "
Kofi Annan
Integrity
Challenges
Democracy
" Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. "
David Ben-Gurion
Anchor
Without
Moral
" Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it. "
Ian Smith
Up
Want
Live
" There's no alternative to Catalan independence. "
Carles Puigdemont
Alternative
Independence
" The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations. "
Frank Church
Free
Media
Relationships
" In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness? "
Lionel Shriver
Happiness
Independence
Right