Kim Jung Quotes

#1. North Korean dictator Kim Jung Il may be stepping down. Yeah, experts in the State Department say he could be replaced by his son, Menta Li Ill.

David Letterman

#2. So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.

Kim Dae-jung

#3. Only the truly magnanimous and strong are capable of forgiving and loving.

Kim Dae-jung

#4. No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included.

Richard Matheson

#5. Sophie don't do nothing Sophie don't want.

Thea Harrison

#6. Jung Min's palms are always sweating and he wears strange socks!

Kim Hyung-jun

#7. But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

Kim Dae-jung

#8. American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

Kim Dae-jung

#9. Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

Kim Dae-jung

#10. A dream isn't worth the sleep, unless you are wide awake when dreaming it.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#11. If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

Kim Dae-jung

#12. I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

Kim Dae-jung

#13. A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

Tom Wilson

#14. There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.

Kim Dae-jung

#15. Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

Fritz Sauckel

#16. People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.

Kim Woo-jung

#17. The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.

Patrick Lencioni

#18. That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

John Updike

#19. Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to.

Kim Ki-jung

#20. When the fire is lighted within your soul, can't help it, but to burn.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.

Elliott Abrams

#22. Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

Kim Dae-jung

#23. So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

Kim Dae-jung

#24. We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.

Felix J. Palma

#25. So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula.

Kim Dae-jung

#26. So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

Kim Dae-jung

#27. No matter where I went, I always knew my way back to you. You are my compass star.

Diana Peterfreund

#28. So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

Kim Dae-jung

#29. Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.

Kim Dae-jung

#30. So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

Kim Dae-jung

#31. You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

Kim Dae-jung

#32. Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

Kim Dae-jung

#33. Sean Holloway is a ladies' man, and not to be trusted.

J.A. Belfield

#34. When you find love, you must catch it close and hold it tight. Do not let it go so easily.

Shelly Thacker

#35. And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

Kim Dae-jung

#36. To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

Kim Dae-jung

#37. So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

Kim Dae-jung

#38. We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that make us who we really are.

Nenia Campbell

#39. I knew I'd sounded bitter, but I didn't bend even when guilt threatened to throttle me with its bony fingers. I hope it was worth it, Mom.

Megan Hart