Quotes of the Week - Oct 5, 2008:
"The reality is we're in an urgent situation and the consequences
will get bigger each day we do not act." -- US President George Bush,
on efforts to resurrect the $700 billion financial rescue package aimed
at stabilizing financial markets.
"Sixty-seven percent of the Republican Conference decided to put
political ideology ahead of the best interest of our great nation."
-- U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina,
after the House voted against the $700-billion bailout package.
"I go three, maybe four times a year to get tested for sexually transmitted
infections and most of the time I don't even need to." -- Singer
and TV presenter Kelly Osborne.
Authors:
Yasser Arafat Quotes, Famous Yasser Arafat Quotes, Quotations
Palestine
is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the
explosive that blows it apart. Yasser Arafat Quoted in Time, November 11, 1974
The
Palestinian vision of peace is an independent and viable Palestinian
state on the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, living
as an equal neighbor alongside Israel with peace and security
for both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples. Yasser Arafat
The
struggle will continue until all of Palestine is liberated. Yasser Arafat Voice of Palestine Radio, November 11, 1995
This
is my homeland - no one can kick me out. Yasser Arafat Reply to Ariel Sharon's threat to expel him
from the occupied territories, September 11, 2003
Those
who call us terrorists wish to prevent world public opinion
from discovering the truth about us and from seeing the justice
on our faces. They seek to bide the terrorism and tyranny of
their acts, and our own posture of self-defence. Yasser Arafat Speech to United Nations, New York, November
13, 1974
Today
I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's
gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat:
do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. Yasser Arafat Speech to United Nations, New York, November
13, 1974
Whoever
stands for a just cause and fights for the freedom and liberation
of his land from the invaders, settlers and colonialists cannot
possibly be called a terrorist. Yasser Arafat Speech to United Nations, New York, November
13, 1974
Yasser
Arafat - Palestinian leader, President of Palestinian Authority from
1996. Born 1929. Nobel Peace Prize 1994.
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