Rousseff Quotes

#1. I consider the relationship with the U.S. very important to Brazil. I will try to forge closer ties with the U.S.

Dilma Rousseff

#2. Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

Dilma Rousseff

#3. Remember ... life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.

Meg Cabot

#4. You got to be ready for everything in life

Dilma Rousseff

#5. Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who does not value the Brazilian democracy.

Dilma Rousseff

#6. I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

Dilma Rousseff

#7. I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Dilma Rousseff

#8. An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

Michio Kushi

#9. For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.

Herman Melville

#10. I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

Dilma Rousseff

#11. I am privileged to have your illuminating presence in my life that adds etherealness to my existence!

Avijeet Das

#12. Never have I trusted Fortune,' writes Seneca, 'even when she seemed to be at peace. All her generous bounties - money, office, influence - I deposited where she could ask for them back without disturbing me.

Oliver Burkeman

#13. We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target.

Dilma Rousseff

#14. I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

Patrick White

#15. My mission is to eradicate poverty.

Dilma Rousseff

#16. He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

Gautama Buddha

#17. We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

Dilma Rousseff

#18. If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.

Og Mandino

#19. Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions.

Dilma Rousseff

#20. It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

Mahatma Gandhi