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This summit is a masquerade,
JULIEN PAIN Where was Kofi Annan when Saddam was slaughtering the Iraqis like sheep?
HAZEM SHA'ALAN This summit is very politicized,
VICENTE FOX Now a very important moment has come for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to go there (Iraq),
YEVGENY PRIMAKOV This summit is the culmination of that suggestion.
LUDWIG P. GAINES This summit is a huge test for Russia.
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER at this moment, we don't need a summit.
DONNA SHALALA This is not a summit about the FTAA.
JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA This is not a summit about the FTAA,
JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA This will be a summit about employment and economic development, not about Austria,
ANTONIO GUTERRES A summit of fundamental transformation
GEORGE ROBERTSON The summit, which is set up to educate people about managing their money and protecting their income...
BILL COSBY this summit, is not about Hugo Chavez.
STEPHEN HADLEY This shows the attitude of Turkey and its political culture, which reaffirms how wise we were to rej...
GEORGE LILLIKAS Unfortunately we should not expect much out of this summit.
SAEB ERAKAT Russia believes one cannot talk about failed diplomatic efforts or reach a verdict before Kofi Annan...
YEVGENY PRIMAKOV What matters is the content of this summit, not the date,
SAEB ERAKAT Rarely has an Arab summit been held with as much fogginess as the Khartoum summit -- assuming it wil...
GHASSAN TUENI …blissfulness is the summit of contentment…
JANVIER CHOUTEU-CHANDO We want to make it clear to the U.N. Secretary-General ( Kofi Annan ) himself that those sites are w...
NIZAR HAMDOON If this summit fails, there really is no way back.
KEVIN WATKINS They were planning a parallel summit.
FIDEL CASTRO We are within sight of the summit.
LARRY CRUMPLER Hermiston is the team to beat again and Summit will be kind of a darkhorse,
JOSH DAVIS For many years, David Anderson has advocated a health summit that would include all of the local hea...
DAYMON DOSS On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
EDMUND HILLARY The Nice summit will be one of the toughest in the history of Europe.
MICHEL BARNIER The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
DESIDERIUS I am hopeful, confident and optimistic that with goodwill on all sides we will be able to implement ...
JAYANTHA DHANAPALA It is a rather broad, flat summit so there is not likely to be one good place for a single 360-degre...
WILLIAM FARRAND It's not deadlocked, ... We went from a summit which was supposed to bury FTAA to a summit ... in wh...
STEPHEN HADLEY It's not deadlocked, ... We went from a summit which was supposed to bury FTAA to a summit ... in wh...
STEPHEN HADLEY Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky.
THOMAS CAMPBELL Summit or death, either way, I win.
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN Holding a summit without first reaching common ground on the crucial issues being negotiated poses a...
HASSAN ASFOUR I'm not sending a minister because I don't expect it to be an effective summit.
CLARE SHORT He is trying to lower expectations ahead of the summit.
CHARLES GRANT In the past five years, Kofi Annan focused on Africa because the Africans had the impression the Uni...
ABDALLAH BAALI Each year the Georgia Life Sciences Summit sets a new attendance record, ... Escalating enthusiasm f...
CHARLES CRAIG He has decided to interrupt his vacation to take stock of progress towards the 2005 world summit, an...
MARIE OKABE Kofi Annan was the U.N. Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping operations. He had the responsibili...
ROMEO DALLAIRE President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off ...
CONAN O'BRIEN The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the vie...
HASSAN NASRALLAH I don't think there is any place in Stark County or Summit County like this.
BRENDA JACKSON Summit has a formidable presence in the attractive New Jersey market. This transaction is an excelle...
TERRENCE MURRAY After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organ...
NOAM CHOMSKY [Jeanette] was one of the four great black boxers of the early 1900s, and he owned a boxing gym on 2...
KATHIE PONTUS The summit is up for grabs right now, and we cannot let this chance slip away.
CAROLINE GREEN Whatever the struggle, continue the climb. It may be only one step to the summit.
DIANE WESTLAKE All of this is based upon the Summit County lie. This is all rumor and innuendo from a political cro...
BOB PADUCHIK People come to Summit County to get out of the heat of Denver.
CINDY ABRAMOWITZ China-U.S. relations have gone beyond the era when breakthroughs could only be achieved through a su...
YUAN PENG The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.
MARTY RUBIN The Arafat-Clinton summit is critical because it will show whether we are moving towards a summit wh...
CHEMI SHALEV Major communication and energy projects will be legally drawn up within the Eurasian Economic Commun...
ISLAM KARIMOV We cannot have our relationship with China held hostage to any single issue. ... This is not a one-i...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We've reached a real breakthrough with the summit in our collective attempt to ensure that this is a...
JOHN TURNER No man can reach the summit, without first reaching for God.
SHELLY KAY WALDE I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce...
MAURICE STRONG [U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked the Northern Alliance] to respect their obligations und...
LAKHDAR BRAHIMI It has been a great adventure to get onto the summit of this hill. I know we went there for science ...
CHRIS LEGER It takes courage to face the mountain and strength to climb, but when you reach the summit and see t...
MITCH HARRIS As I have said, as President Clinton has said, he is prepared to have such a summit, but we have to ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT All these activities will create a favorable atmosphere for the impending Sino-US summit.
FU MENGZI All these activities will create a favorable atmosphere for the impending Sino-US summit,
FU MENGZI On the question of whether (the summit) will...be making a specific decision ... on raising or lower...
BIJAN ZANGANEH While the summit was hopeful, not all the issues have been resolved,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT It's a difficult situation here. We're too close (to Summit County) to be far, and too far to be clo...
JAMES GARDNER This very bold step builds momentum toward an historic breakthrough on aid and trade at the G8 summi...
JAMIE DRUMMOND Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madho...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.
CONRAD ANKER Turns out that no one has measured the wind speed at the summit,
MICHAEL HAWLEY If the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt Everest, the highest place on Earth, one can never be ...
YUICHIRO MIURA It is not the end, just the beginning, but the homework is enormous, ... The summit itself ended, bu...
YOSHIO UTSUMI I'm afraid this is the last chance, because a collapse of this summit may lead to, as I've said befo...
EPHRAIM SNEH We should overcome the various issues and mutually take the risk to hold a summit meeting.
HIDENAO NAKAGAWA I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.
ANATOLI BOUKREEV We've offered to various chambers, five or six big ones. [Lee's Summit] is the first of many.
JOE MULLINS We will continue shouldering the responsibility for serving the interests of the summit and the peop...
ELJAHWI IBRAHIM MALIK None will reach the more ambitious (1996) World Food Summit goal of halving the number of hungry peo...
JACQUES DIOUF Based on the medical evidence that clearly states that being above 10,000 feet is hazardous to the h...
STEVEN MAGEE Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.
PAUL D. BOYER The Summit is not just another conference, it's a movement of growing potential to bring new resourc...
HOPE MASTERS Habitat for Humanity is not real active here in Summit County. This is an opportunity for people who...
BONNIE OSBORN At the Zayed Summit, His Majesty urged executing this project in the shortest period of time and pro...
SHAIKH AHMED Human rights victims around the world have been anxiously watching this summit, and their focus will...
PEGGY HICKS The (EU) member states agreed in March at the European summit in Brussels that this should be part o...
ULRICH WILHELM The summit in June was a political disaster and after that we have to create a better atmosphere,
ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN It is no substitute for an overall plan on aid and trade at the G8 summit, but this degree of cooper...
JAMIE DRUMMOND It is no substitute for an overall plan on aid and trade at the G8 summit, but this degree of cooper...
JAMIE DRUMMOND I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
HARRI HOLKERI The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
BARRY M. GOLDWATER The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
BARRY GOLDWATER You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
STANISLAW LEM I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.
CAROL BELLAMY Life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.
JOHN KEATS I don't think there is going to be any significant outcome from a big summit as WSIS. But I really h...
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