Horta Quotes

#1. 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.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#2. They kept asking me over and over again whether I was
having a romance with Hitler. Are you Hitler's girlfriend?
I laughed and answered the same way each time: No, those
are false rumours. I only made documentaries for him ...

Leni Riefenstahl

#3. Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won't hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.

Rachel Nichols

#4. 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.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#5. So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.

James Gleick

#6. 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.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#7. Cam, I think it's pretty cool that you're spending time with Avery. I like her. She's nice.

J. Lynn

#8. 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.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#9. 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.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#10. Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#11. 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.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#12. 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.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#13. More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#14. The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#15. Sometimes, a war saves people.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#16. We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#17. I believe in being compassionate,

Jose Ramos-Horta

#18. Buffett's genius was largely a genius of character - of patience, discipline, and rationality.

Roger Lowenstein

#19. Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

Edmund Phelps

#20. 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.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#21. When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#22. 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

#23. 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.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#24. The perpetual mourner
the grief that can never be healed
is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning
a new acquaintance with grief.

George Eliot