Top 40 Joschka Fischer Quotes
#1. The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.
Joschka Fischer
#2. Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age
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#3. What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
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#4. We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.
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#5. The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010 ... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.
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#6. Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.
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#7. India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.
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#8. There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.
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#9. We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.
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#10. Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#11. We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.
Joschka Fischer
#12. Church must lead all other spheres of influence.We find people from all the mountains there.The church leaders must be able to mentor them
Paul Gitwaza
#13. I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.
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#14. A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender it - this was the wise saying of Sir Thomas Browne.
A.S. Byatt
#15. We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.
Joschka Fischer
#16. The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.
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#17. Government interventions create unintended consequences that lead to calls for further intervention, and so on into a destructive spiral of more and more government control.
Ron Paul
#18. A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
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#19. Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
Roger Wicker
#20. When the man arises who can make you laugh, solemn Ista, angry Ista, iron Ista, then will your heart be healed. You have not prayed for this: it's a guerdon even the gods cannot give you. We are limited to such simples as redemption from your sins.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#22. We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.
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#23. By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.
Nicholas Negroponte
#24. You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.
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#25. Re-claim your power, don't you dare shrink your worth for someone elses glory.
They'll attempt to sabotage your greatnes but it is you that will feel the aftermath of your unwritten story.
Nikki Rowe
#26. We had to move forward after the war and see the realities.
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#27. The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.
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#28. An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.
Nick Harkaway
#29. We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!
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#30. My Christmas tree glimmered with lights, ornaments, and tinsel. Though such holiday trimmings weren't in vogue any longer, I loved them. I pulled every box of family decorations from the attic and glamored the tree until it looked like a "fancy woman in a cheap brothel" as my aunt Loulane would say.
Carolyn Haines
#31. Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.
Joschka Fischer
#32. We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.
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#33. An enlarged Union based on Nice is not in the interest of any Member State ... This is not a threat. This is a messenger delivering news.
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#34. There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
Zooey Deschanel
#36. Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.
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#37. There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.
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#38. The tree that never had to fight
for sun and sky and air and light
but stood out in the open plain
and always got it share of rain,
never became a forest king
but lived and died a scrubby thing.
Good timber does not grow with ease.
The stronger wind, the stronger trees.
Douglas Malloch
#40. I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Joschka Fischer
