Top 33 W De Klerk Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Your horse is only as fast as your brain. Every time you learn something, your horse will move ahead.
Carol S. Dweck
#3. I believe that first impressions are very important.
F. W. De Klerk
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
Eric Gill
#8. If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
Ovid
#9. When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
F. W. De Klerk
#10. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. I still think of her as mine. After all this time, when I think of Meredith, she's my Meredith. Irrational? Yes.
Stupid? Most definitely.
But I don't give a fuck.
Kristen Proby
#17. 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
#18. 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
#20. Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
Ayn Rand
#21. Life is messy, violent, confusing, and hopeful.
Wally Lamb
#22. 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
#23. To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth to be effective and for it to make people wiser, it has to be filtered through the soul of a highest quality, the soul of an artist.
Alexander Ostrovsky
#24. One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#25. 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
#26. Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.
Pete Townshend
#27. 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
#28. You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
F. W. De Klerk
#29. For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
F. W. De Klerk
#30. President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
F. W. De Klerk
#31. Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."
Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.
Richard Adams
#32. I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
Gregory Peck
#33. 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
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