It is obvious that the European Union would never countenance funding a regime that continued an armed fight against Israel. But we cannot push for democracy and then deny the result of free and fair elections.
Ignasi Guardans
Related
It is obvious that the EU would never countenance funding a regime that continued an armed fight aga...
IGNASI GUARDANS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about it...
VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
FATOS NANO I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will...
OLUSEGUN OBASANJO The challenge now is to make democratic institutions work, ... That is completely different from hav...
SERGIO AGUAYO will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy .
ALI ZARDARI Obviously there's an election coming up. We would like it to be free and fair. And a prerequisite of...
STEPHEN HADLEY there's a lot happening. Democracy is today's world order. Everybody's talking democracy in the regi...
ALI ZARDARI The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should ...
MARIA CANTWELL This means that if 54.5 percent of voters in Montenegro want independence, then we remain in union w...
MILO DJUKANOVIC In the fight against bigotry, we stand together and we must. In the fight against injustice, we stan...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, 'Okay, the Soviet Union isn't wo...
MARINE LE PEN It is our responsibility to recover the dignity of the republic, re-establish democracy ... full res...
JAVIER PEREZ DE CUELLAR We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by...
ZWELINZIMA VAVI However, real unification of the armed forces is a prerequisite for elections that are free of human...
KOLAWOLE OLANIYAN We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL This is a big day for Kosovo. These are the first free elections in free Kosovo and they are an impo...
IBRAHIM RUGOVA Although it is difficult at this moment to speak about the motives behind today's incident, I cannot...
IVO SANADER It is far away from the free and fair elections the government promised.
BERHANU NEGA The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then...
ZAC GOLDSMITH There is a crisis on the Right. It sees the Jewish and democratic state as a democracy for the Jews....
REUVEN RIVLIN The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a po...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN The government in Islamabad must ensure that these elections are open, free and fair.
JOSETTE SHINER We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the countr...
YIANNIS STOURNARAS The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent,...
OMAR BONGO It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As a...
VACLAV KLAUS By all accounts the elections were free and fair.
LARRY DENARDIS For the good of Israel, the date of March 7 (for general elections) cannot be delayed.
AMIR PERETZ (More state aid) would create an opportunity for more balanced and fair funding.
MARK METZGER It's an initiative that had been taken without consulting the (quartet) partners (United States, Rus...
DENIS SIMONNEAU Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
KATE MOSSE Let me first thank President Bush for his concern about Lebanon and the fair and free elections that...
IMAD MOUSTAPHA It is unfortunate that Britain and, to some extent, the EU, has taken the position that in Africa, f...
JONATHAN MOYO Are they committed to change? The answer is no. They have to give the impression of free and fair el...
HISHAM KASSEM I learned an important lesson: Never take the obvious for granted. Once upon a time, it was so obvio...
V.S. RAMACHANDRAN The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take...
DAN LIPINSKI If we win the legislative elections , we will never recognize the state of Israel,
MAHMOUD ABBAS It is clear that the incumbent president allowed the state authorities to be used in a manner which ...
ALCEE HASTINGS Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as ...
JACOB ZUMA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete ...
STEPHEN HADLEY Even though there are many hardships, the fact that Iraqis continue to vote in large numbers and are...
IBRAHIM JAAFARI It was good to be gay on Top of the Pops years before it was good to be gay in Parliament, or gay in...
CAITLIN MORAN Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in In...
ALAA AL ASWANY Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the Eur...
YULIA TYMOSHENKO Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a s...
NOAM CHOMSKY Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...
So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER If Mugabe wants to prove that he is committed to running a free and fair election, he must disband t...
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats d...
MATT TAIBBI This region has several benefits. You can get extensive funding from the European Union, the German ...
DAVID HOGG I believe that serious reflection about the values we Europeans share is crucial for the vitality an...
JAN PETER BALKENENDE It is extremely important for the credibility of the European Union that we should be willing to go ...
FRANCESC VENDRELL I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN This joint effort will result in strong representation for all workers at the newly merged airline, ...
JAMES HOFFA We think that this election was absolutely unfair, absolutely unlawful, and it's an obvious sign tha...
ZHARMAKHAN TUYAKBAI The repeal of laws as a means to roll back the state is not unjustified. For example, there is no co...
DANIEL ALEXANDER BRACKINS The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe t...
AHMED CHALABI Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, ...
DAVID CAMERON The percentages are low, no question, ... The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a pro...
JACK SHEA The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
FEDERICA MOGHERINI The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of dar...
ARIEL SHARON Their involvement in (the election) campaign threatens free and fair elections as it borders on vote...
JALE BABA Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliam...
BARRY EICHENGREEN On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election i...
JIM GERLACH Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our f...
MICHAEL GOVE You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ We understand that the publication of the anti-Muslim cartoons presents vexing issues for a democrac...
ANTHONY D. ROMERO Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire ...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS It was against a team that we would be expecting to fight for qualification,
RAFAEL BENITEZ In the logic of the current negotiations, market access will determine whether there will be a virtu...
CELSO AMORIM France , like the European Union, will always be at the side of those who, in Israel and among the P...
JACQUES CHIRAC The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country's rel...
NIGEL LAWSON Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS We would like to make these discoveries routine and eventually push into the 'super Earth' regime.
GEOFFREY MARCY The country voted to leave the European Union, and it is the duty of the Government and of Parliamen...
THERESA MAY Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of...
HERBERT CROLY Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.
GEORGE MONTGOMERY That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never...
CHARLI XCX The UK's disease-free status for avian flu is not altered here. We've got an avian flu in quarantine...
DEBBY REYNOLDS The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the...
C. JOYBELL C. We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT It is important that we speak with one voice on this issue in the European Union, uphold our common ...
HEINZ FISCHER Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination ...
PAUL ROBESON He continued the fight against inflation that Volcker began and has gradually managed to squeeze inf...
MARSHALL VEST The goal is to have the pressure be so great that Saddam Hussein cooperates, ... Short of that -- an...
DONALD RUMSFELD As the industry endures continued economic uncertainty, this agreement will ensure that nearly 10,00...
JAMES HOFFA On the situation in Angola, the commission had expressed hope that the general elections scheduled f...
FESTUS MOGAE To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Something happened to the State of Israel. What was morally obvious in 1948 is not so obvious anymor...
TZIPI LIVNI I think that there are a number of people that backed Bill but what caused him to be unacceptable fo...
FRED BUSCHE We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist...
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON