OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) was a French politician who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. His relentless hard work and thrift made him an esteemed minister. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing and bringing the economy back from the brink of bankruptcy.

## Quotes

* The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to procure the largest quantity of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
** Quoted in: William Sharp McKechnie (1896). The State & the Individual: An Introduction to Political Science, with Special Reference to Socialistic and Individualistic Theories. p. 77
* It is simply, and solely, the abundance of money within a state [which] makes the difference in its grandeur and power.
** Arthur John Sargent (1899), The Economic Policy of Colbert. p. 65
* Que faut-il faire pour vous aider? Laissez-nous faire!
** What should be done to help you? Let us be!
** Alleged conversation between French Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert and a merchant named Legendre (1680), quoted in, among others, "The End of Laissez-Faire" (1926) by John Maynard Keynes

## Quotes about Jean-Baptiste Colbert

* As a rigid logician, [Colbert] cannot object to the reduction of his principles to a logical absurdity, which may be stated thus. The growth of French industry and commerce requires that a high standard of quality in the products be maintained. This standard can only be secured by Government regulation: this regulation can only be forced on an unwilling people by search for and exposure of defective goods: this search injures the trade which it is desired to promote, and disheartens the merchants and others whose zealous cooperation is of the last importance for the success of French industry and commerce. Of course the fallacy lies in the first statement, the assumption that an absolute standard of excellence exists, and that the producer is a better judge of it than the consumer.
** Arthur John Sargent (1899), The Economic Policy of Colbert. Kitchener, Ontario: Batoche Books, 2004. p. 39; As cited in: William H. Starbuck and Philippe Baumard (2009). "The seeds, blossoming, and scant yield of organization theory,"
# Carol Moseley Braun

Carol Moseley Braun (born 16 August 1947) is a former U.S. Senator, an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. Prior to her Senate tenure, Moseley Braun was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1979 to 1988 and served as Cook County Recorder of Deeds from 1988 to 1992.

## Quotes

* The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
** 40th Cconvention of the Islamic Society of North America Speech, (September 6, 2004)
* Ketanji Brown Jackson questioning appealing to the worst instincts of the American people
** Moseley Braun: Ketanji Brown Jackson questioning ‘appealing to the worst instincts of the American people’ (March 25, 2022)
* There’s a word, and the word is called misogynoir. And that word describes the double whammy that women of color have to face: You’re vulnerable on the issue of gender, and you’re vulnerable on the issue of race.
** The US’s first Black woman senator on what Ketanji Brown Jackson brings to the Supreme Court (April 7, 2022)
# Chris Bryant

Sir Christopher John Bryant (born 11 January 1962) is a British politician and former Anglican priest who is the chair of the Committees on Standards and Privileges. He previously served in government as Deputy Leader of the House of Commons from 2008 to 2009 and Under-Secretary of State for Europe and Asia from 2009 to 2010. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Rhondda since the 2001 general election.

## Quotes

* We get very complacent about the state of our democracy. We think that because we’ve got parliament, and people get elected, that’s the democracy box ticked. It’s not.
* No, I’m not going on Strictly. I won't dance. Don't ask me. Our primary job is running the country. We've got to a state now where most of us are more fixated on our two-minute clip on Twitter than a sustained, nuanced argument.
* [On the damage done to politician's public reputation by the actions of MPs such as Boris Johnson] We've gone from 45 per cent of people thinking we're all terrible and lying all the time to 80 per cent. That is really problematic. Government is by consent and if the people no longer think that, in the main, parliament is there to defend their rights and freedoms, then the danger is they'll go, "What is the point of democracy?" It's easy for someone to say it's a lot more efficient to just have someone in charge. Why bother with getting things through the House? Why bother with persuading people? That’s the danger.
** "Chris Bryant: In the 22 years I’ve been an MP, five male MPs have groped me", The Times (9 August 2023)
# Charles Alexandre de Calonne

Charles Alexandre de Calonne (20 January 1734, Douai – 30 October 1802, Paris) was a French statesman, best known for his involvement in the French Revolution.

## Quotes

* Si cela n'est que difficile, c'est fait; si cela est impossible, nous verrons.
** Translation: If it is only difficult, it is done; if it is impossible, we shall see.
** Response to Marie Antoinette when she informed him that something she needed done might be difficult.
** Quoted by François Guizot in Biographie Universelle, Volume 6 (1812)
# Benjamin Butler (politician)

Benjamin Franklin Butler (5 November 1818 – 11 January 1893) was an American politician and soldier during the American Civil War.

## Quotes

* The true touchstone of civil liberty is not that all men are equal but that every man has the right to be the equal of every other man – if he can.
** Inscription on monument
* I have forborne, sir, in this discussion, to argue the question upon any other or different grounds of right than those adopted by your authorities, in claiming the negroes as property, because I understand that your fabric of opposition to the Government of the United States has the right of property in man as its corner-stone.
** As quoted in Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler (1892), p. 604
* Will you suffer your soldier, captured in fighting your battles, to be in confinement for months rather than release him by giving for him that which you call a piece of property, and which we are willing to accept as a man? You certainly appear to place less value upon your soldier than you do upon your negro. I assure you, much as we of the North are accused of loving property, our citizens would have no difficulty in yielding up any piece of property they have in exchange for one of their brothers or sons languishing in your prisons.
** As quoted in Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler (1892), pp. 604–605

## Quotes about Benjamin Butler

* That sturdy old Roman, Benjamin Butler, made the negro a contraband, Abraham Lincoln made him a freeman, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant made him citizen.
** Frederick Douglass, as quoted in Grant, by Ron Chernow, p. 858
* The great crisis facing the country was the rebellion and anybody in the North who wanted to preserve the Union now found the principal enemy to be those Southern slave owners who had broken up the country. The institution which sustained them and the institution they went to war to defend was slavery. And more and more northerners became convinced of that. As a consequence, a lot of them went the whole way over, from being conservative, pro-Southern, pro-slavery Democrats to becoming radical Republicans. Benjamin Butler is a good example, and Edwin M. Stanton is another one.
** James M. McPherson, as quoted in "An exchange with a Civil War historian" (19 June 1995), by David Walsh, International Workers Bulletin

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Benjamin Butler (politician) on Wikipedia
# Philosophers Behaving Badly

Philosophers Behaving Badly is a 2004 book by Nigel Rodgers and Mel Thompson.

## Quotes

* Philosophers are not and have never claimed to be sages or saints, leading lives of impeccable virtue. Their arguments are intellectual and their individual foibles do not automatically invalidate their conclusions. But if philosophers are not priests neither are they artists of any type who can claim a complete dissociation between their lives and their work – and such a claim by any philosopher may be disputed.
** "Introduction", p. 10
* 'The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues,' observed Descartes. Those seeking in philosophy a guide for the perplexed should be aware that while philosophy can enlighten it can also mislead and delude.
** "Introduction", p. 14
# Salvador Sánchez Cerén

Salvador Sánchez Cerén (born 18 June 1944) is an El Salvadorian politician. He was the 42nd President of El Salvador in 2014–2019.

## Quotes

* I am representing the El Salvadoran people to show you how grateful we are and our satisfaction now that we have restored our diplomatic relations (from Republic of China to the People's Republic of China).
** Salvador Sánchez Cerén (2021) cited in: "China hosts El Salvador, Dominican leaders after Taiwan switch" in The Straits Times, 1 November 2018.
# Cao Gangchuan

Cao Gangchuan (simplified Chinese: 曹刚川; traditional Chinese: 曹剛川; pinyin: Cáo Gāng Chuān) (born December 1935) is vice chairman of Central Military Commission and former Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China.

## Sourced

* The will of 1.3 billion Chinese people cannot be infringed upon.
** http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4983639-103681,00.html
# Lawton Chiles

Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. He served as a United States senator from 1971 to 1989 and as the 41st governor of Florida from 1991 to 1998.
A Korean War veteran, Chiles later returned to Florida for law school and eventually opened his own private practice in 1955. Three years later, Chiles entered politics with a successful bid for the Florida House of Representatives in 1958, as a member of the Democratic Party. By 1966, Chiles left the Florida House to run for the Florida Senate. Despite 12 years in the Florida Legislature, Chiles was relatively unknown when he decided to bid for United States Senate in 1970.

## Quotes

* We can show the way. We can make dust -- or eat dust.
** State of the State address (2 February 1993)
* To be a successful state, we have to nurture successful children.
** State of the State address (4 March 1997)
# Claudine Uwera

Claudine Uwera is a Rwandan Politician and Economist who currently serves as Minister of State in Charge of Economic Planning in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in Rwandan since 2018. Prior of appointment, she was the Coordinator of the Natural Capital Accounting Program (NCA).

## Quotes

* The government of Rwanda recognizes the critical role of Public Financial Management (PFM), in the sustainable development of a country.
** Claudine Uwera said, it was a long and challenging journey to get there. (ktpress.rw, April 03, 2022)
* significant improvements have been noted in PFM, and these reforms provided the means of ensuring that the resources allocated to the various programmes, are applied effectively, and efficiently, to achieve the intended purposes and attain value for money.
** Claudine Uwera said that, I am happy to mention. (ktpress.rw, April 03, 2022)
# Bonnie Watson Coleman

Bonnie Watson Coleman (born February 6, 1945) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served as the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th congressional district since 2015. She previously served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1998 to 2015 for the 15th Legislative District.

## Quotes

* You need your medication!
** to US Rep. Louie Gohmert, "GOP lawmaker asks FBI agent about lying to wife over affair" (July 12, 2018)
# Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie (née Cohen; on 13 October 1946) is a former British government minister and Conservative MP.

## Quotes

* Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.
** "Mrs Currie Dishes Up Aids Advice", The Yorkshire Post (13 February 1987).
* My message to the businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is only one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS - and that is the wife...
** "Mrs Currie Dishes Up Aids Advice", The Yorkshire Post (13 February 1987).
* The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.
** Best Ever Spitting Image TV documentary (2006).
** Prime Minister John Major was depicted having a crush on Virginia Bottomley, but Currie and Major had an affair from 1984 to 1988.
# Alexander De Croo

Alexander De Croo (born 3 November 1975) is a Belgian politician who currently serves as the 71st Prime Minister of Belgium since 1 October 2020. He previously served as the Minister of Finance in 2018–2020, Deputy Prime Minister in 2012–2020, Minister of Pensions in 2012–2014 and Minister of Development Cooperation in 2014–2020.

## Quotes

* Relations with Russia are currently extremely unstable and uncertain. If things go awry for our neighbors, then that is also a problem for us. It also has a direct impact on our country and on Europe as a whole, in the form of for example refugee numbers and energy prices. There is a need to ease tensions and restore stability. An open conflict is in nobody's interest.
** Alexander De Croo (2021) cited in: "A need to ease tensions with Russia" in Prime Minister of Belgium, 16 December 2021.
* Freedom of expression is one of the foundations of our society. Everyone is free to express their opinion. But our society will never accept indiscriminate violence, and even less towards our police forces.
** Alexander De Croo (2022) cited in: "Clashes as tens of thousands protest Covid rules in Belgium" in Malay Mail, 24 January 2022.
* We need sanctions that bite (Russia).
** Alexander De Croo (2022) cited in: "EU leaders agree on 'massive' sanctions against Russia after invasion of Ukraine" in The Times of Israel, 24 February 2022.
* Our European skies are open skies. They're open for those who connect people, not for those who seek to brutally aggress.
** Alexander De Croo (2022) cited in: "Europe is closing its skies to Russian flights after Ukraine invasion" in Politico, 27 February 2022.
# Nathan Deal

John Nathan Deal (born August 25, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 82nd Governor of Georgia from 2011 to 2019. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party in 1992 and switched to the Republican Party in 1995.

## Quotes

* We do not have a belief, in my way of looking at religion, that says we have to discriminate against anybody,” he said, noting that Jesus Christ reached out to the social outcasts of his time. “If you were to apply those standards to the teaching of Jesus, I don’t think they fit.
** A passage in the Gospel of John about Jesus’ outreach makes the point, he said, “that we have a belief in forgiveness and that we do not have to discriminate unduly against anyone on the basis of our own religious beliefs.”
** reported by Trudy Ring, "Georgia Governor: 'License to Discriminate' Bill Isn't Christian," The Advocate, March 3, 2016
* I do not think we have to discriminate against anyone to protect the faith based community in Georgia of which my family and I are a part of for all of our lives.
** Remarks on HB 757 (March 2016)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Nathan Deal on Wikipedia
# Madeleine Dean

Madeleine Dean Cunnane (born June 6, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district. The district includes almost all of Montgomery County, a suburban county north of Philadelphia. Before being elected to Congress, Dean was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, representing the 153rd district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

## Quotes

* If I don’t tell the story honestly, it will come off like some sort of a patina. And that won’t help anybody
** "‘Do it now. Ask for help now’: Rep. Madeleine Dean and her son reflect on his addiction", Roll Call (February 24, 2021)
* The very powerful first steps to unifying is to take us through what happened here and (ensure) this can never happen again
** "Pa. Rep. Madeline Dean on prosecuting Trump's impeachment trial and why he can still be convicted", The Philadelphia Inquirer (November 27, 2022)
* National Recovery Month is a time to bring hope to people in recovery and their families. I was grateful to be with my son, Harry, as well as Secretary Jen Smith and other advocates to discuss how we can make recovery more accessible and possible for everyone in Pennsylvania
* Government has a role to play to spread awareness, break stigma, and help save lives
* Anytime I can stand up and say, remember — particularly in Pennsylvania — you still have your rights to abortion care and your privacy of health-care services, that’s really something I want to do
** she said
* As activists and as lawmakers we must have our voice and our legislation be heard, we need to make sure we pass laws that protect and expand rights up against the extremist right-wing Supreme Court and Republican Party
** on lawyers and activists
* I want this bill passed and I want other families to never suffer that risk of not having warning and not having the chance to make a safe exit
** Dean said on subsidized housing
# William M. Evarts

William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 1876.

## Quotes

* The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their knees and then upon the aborigines.
** Quoted by Henry Waterson in the Louisville Courier-Journal (July 4, 1913), according to John Bartlett (ed.) Familiar Quotations, 13th ed. (1955), p. 592

## Quotes about Evarts

* In none of his ways has he the magnetism of a great speaker. He has a clear, sharp, ringing voice, though it is not powerful or musical. His action is sparing, but effective. In making his points he is lucid, precise and cogent, seldom rhetorical or ornamental. He has an easy colloquial way; he is never in haste and never hesitates. His style is classic in its correctness. His sentences are long and faultless, and freighted with words which show that profound thought is selecting felicitous vocabulary as it goes along. He has a fine humor, but it is the humor of cultivation, not the coarse fun of the vulgar. His appeal to the intelligence of juries are the highest in their tone, the broadest in their scope and the deepest in their power of any in modern times.
** "The New Cabinet: Wm. M. Evarts, Secretary of State", in the Anderson Intelligencer (March 15, 1877), p. 1
# Scott Fitzpatrick

Scott Fitzpatrick (September 28, 1987–) is an American politician serving as the Missouri State Treasurer. He represented Missouri's 158th District in the Missouri House of Representatives from January 2013 to January 2019.

## Quotes

* As we all adapt and respond to these unprecedented times, we need to make sure these dollars are put to work and put to work in the best way for Missouri to get back on its feet, put the economy back to work, and get Missouri families moving forward again.
** Fitzpatrick leading working group analyzing federal coronavirus relief money (April 10, 2020)

## External links

* Official website
# Humza Yousaf

Humza Haroon Yousaf (born 7 April 1985) is a Scottish politician who has served as the First Minister of Scotland from 29 March 2023 and is a member of the Scottish National Party. He formally resigned as First Minister in May 2024 after announcing his resignation as SNP leader late in April.

## Quotes

* You haven't managed to ever get elected to the Scottish Parliament like me. And I suspect the voters of Scotland will show you the cat flap again come May 6. When you are shown the door, please take your race-baiting "You're not a Celt like me" mince with you.
** Tweet responding to George Galloway, as cited in "Humza Yousaf hits back at George Galloway's 'race-baiting' comments", The Standard (18 March 2021).
** Galloway had tweeted in part: "Well #Humza you’re not more Scottish than me. You're not a Celt like me." At the 2021 Scottish Parliament election on 6 May, Galloway was a candidate for All for Unity. A4U gained no seats, and was soon wound up.
* Let me be clear: Scotland is ready to play her part. Our hospitals will treat the injured men, women and children of Gaza where we can.
** Cited in "Scotland says it is ready to accept Palestinian refugees from Gaza", The Jerusalem Post (19 October 2023).
* I think political leaders should stop beating around the bush, should call what they’re seeing in Gaza. We are seeing not only a humanitarian crisis, but also seeing senior members of the Netanyahu government making statements that are frankly the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing. And that should be condemned in the strongest possible manner.
** Cited in "Scottish leader says Israeli comments on Gaza amount to ‘ethnic cleansing’", Al Jazeera (6 January 2024).
* I was born in Scotland, raised in Scotland, educated in Scotland, just welcomed my third child here in Scotland. Was leader of the Scottish government for just over a year, leader of the Scottish National Party. You cut me open and I'm about as Scottish as they come but the truth of the matter is I don't whether the future for me, and my wife and three children is going to be here in Scotland, the United Kingdom or indeed in Europe and the west.
* We are now seeing the culmination of not years, actually decades of anti-migrant, anti-Muslim rhetoric being normalised in our political discourse now playing out in the most violent way possible.
** Speaking on the News Agents podcast, as cited in "Humza Yousaf questions future in UK after riots", BBC News (6 August 2024).
** During the 2024 United Kingdom riots caused by anti-migrant and anti-Muslim sentiments from the far-right.