Top 32 Klerk Quotes
#1. The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.
F. W. De Klerk
#2. What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
F. W. De Klerk
#4. President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
F. W. De Klerk
#5. For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
F. W. De Klerk
#6. You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
F. W. De Klerk
#7. I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.
Joe Donnelly
#8. Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.
Frederik Willem De Klerk
#9. In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.
John D'Agata
#10. In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.
Adam Ross
#11. When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
F. W. De Klerk
#12. Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
Bob Goff
#13. It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
F. W. De Klerk
#14. My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson.
William Shockley
#15. As a quartet, they struck an unmusical note, primarily the fault of Ybarra-Jaega, who seemed as out of place in their company as a violin in a jazz band.
Truman Capote
#16. I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year. She stood outside of my apartment I used every day for weeks, all day, every day. I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with her. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back.
Robert Pattinson
#17. I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
F. W. De Klerk
#18. I believe that first impressions are very important.
F. W. De Klerk
#19. In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
F. W. De Klerk
#20. The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
F. W. De Klerk
#21. It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
F. W. De Klerk
#22. Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.
Wayne White
#23. Omega-3 is central to cell function and heart health. People who eat a diet rich in omega-3 experience lower rates of heart attack, depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, and Alzheimer's disease. Omega-3 has also been shown to slow the growth of some types of cancer.
Lana Asprey
#24. When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
F. W. De Klerk
#25. Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
F. W. De Klerk
#26. I think everybody needs a passion. Whether it's one passion or a hundred, that's what keep life interesting.
Betty White
#27. I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
F. W. De Klerk
#28. My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
F. W. De Klerk
#29. The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
F. W. De Klerk
#30. I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision ... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
F. W. De Klerk
#32. The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
F. W. De Klerk
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