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# Samir Geagea

Samir Geagea (born 25 October 1952) is a Lebanese politician. The leader of the Lebanese Forces Party, he was released from 11 years in solitary confinement on 26 July 2005. Geagea was however given a pardon and not declared innocent. He still plays a major role on the Christian political scene in Lebanon today.

## Quotes

* Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying (as a minority christians).
** March 1989, addressing crowds in ain el remeneh.
* I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.
** November 2004, speaking to a delegation from the Human Rights Committee of the Lebanese Parliament, quoted in "Samir Geagea will be out of Jail this weekend" in Ya Libnan (18 July 2005)
* You have come out of the big prison which you had been put in and you have taken me out with the same act from the small prison which I had been put in.
** Upon being released from Yarze prison, as quoted in an Associated Press report "Ex-Christian Warlord Released in Lebanon" by Zeina Karam (26 July 2005)
** Variant translation: Now that you (Lebanese people) have come out of the great prison to which you were confined, you have released me from the small prison in which I was put.
*** Full text of speech made on his release from prison (26 July 2005)
* I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions.
** On his release from prison, quoted in "Samir, Sitrida Geagea Airborne for Month-Long Recuperation Abroad" at Lebanese Forces.com (26 July 2005)
* They were long, dark, black years.
** As quoted in "Lebanese ex-warlord is released" in BBC News (26 July 2005)

## External links

* Biographical profile at Lebanese Forces Official site
* A Canadian report on the abuse against Lebanese Forces members and supporters
# Declan Ganley

Declan James Ganley (born 23 July 1968) is an entrepreneur, businessman and political activist from Ireland. He is founder and current chairman for the pan-european political party Libertas and candidate to the European Parliament Elections 2009 in the constituency of North West Ireland.

## Quotes
### The Fight for Democracy – The Libertas Voice in Europe. (2009)

    Arnold, Bruce (2009). The Fight for Democracy – The Libertas Voice in Europe. A series of interviews with Declan Ganley by Bruce Arnold. ISBN: 978-1-905706-18-1. Killynon House Books Ltd.
* The Nice Treaty gave the Irish Government the right to appoint the Irish Commissioner. This right is removed under the Lisbon Treaty.
** p. 18
* (About the Lisbon Treaty): Small Member-States will inevitably be marginalised. The bigger states will not need to listen to their arguments as they did in the past.
** p. 41
* I am quite sure that if most of the voters that voted Yes to Lisbon knew the facts of what was in the Treaty they would have voted No.
** p. 46

## External links

* CNBC profile of Declan Ganley
* Declan Ganley’s speech at Libertas Party Congress in Rome 1st of May 2009
* Declan Ganley’s acceptance speech upon receiving the Frode Jacobsen award
* Declan Ganley interview by Pelle Christy Geertsen
# Feroze Gandhi

Feroze Gandhi (born Feroze Gandhy; 12 September 1912– 8 September 1960) was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and journalist.

## Quotes about Gandhi

* Feroze was furious, to say the least. He fought her with all means, through the press, via other politicians and face-to-face with her over the breakfast table at Teen Murti. According to Janardan Thakur, well-known political correspondent: ‘It was her husband who perhaps first called her a “fascist”, way back in 1959 when she was Congress President, Indira Gandhi had been lobbying hard for intervention in Kerala and Feroze had taken a stand against it. He thought it was undemocratic to dismiss an elected government, whether it was a communist government or otherwise. The issue had come up at breakfast table at Teen Murti, and there had been quite a row between Indira and Feroze, with Nehru looking on very distressed. “It is just not right,” Feroze had said, “you are bullying people. You are a fascist.” Indira Gandhi had flared up. “You are calling me a fascist. I can’t take that.” And she had walked out of the room in rage.’
** Bertil Falk - Feroze_ The Forgotten Gandhi-Roli Books (2016)

## See also

* Indira Gandhi
# Cory Gardner

Cory Scott Gardner (August 22, 1974 –) is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who served as a United States senator from Colorado from 2015 to 2021. A Republican, he was the U.S. representative for Colorado's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2015 and a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011.

## Quotes

* There’s a lot of things that Congress is really, really bad at doing. But one of things it’s really good at doing is sticking its head in the sand. That’s what Congress has been doing for the last several years on this and it can’t do this anywhere.
** Cory Gardner Talks Marijuana, Trump And His Reelection Bid (May 27, 2020)
* I’m dedicated to taking steps to ensure that men and women of color can feel safe and secure in America as we work towards justice and equality for all. Though our country has made significant strides in ensuring justice for all, recent events have reminded us all of the progress we must continue to work towards.
** Cory Gardner talks pandemic response, helping mountain communities recover, bipartisanship and racial equality (October 8, 2020)

## External links

* Official website
# Emil Ghoury

Emil Ghuri (Ghoury) (1907–1984) was Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee (AHC), the official leadership of the Arabs in the British Mandate of Palestine. He was also the general secretary of the Palestine Arab Party.

## Quotes

* I do not want to impugn anybody but only to help the refugees. The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab States in opposing partition and the Jewish State. The Arab States agreed upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem.
** Israel did not cause the Arabs to leave, Beirut Telegraph (September 6, 1948).
# Alan Ganoo

Alan Ganoo (born 17 January 1951) is a Mauritian politician who currently serves as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mauritius since 2021. He previously served as the Speaker of the National Assembly in 1996 and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in 1982–1983.

## Quotes

* Mauritius will continue to pursue its engagement with its friendly partners and international organizations with the objective of generating mutual goodwill and building stronger relationships.
** Alan Ganoo (2022) cited in: "Foreign Minister reiterates Mauritius's Commitment in Building Stronger Ties with its Friendly Partners" in Zawya, 19 January 2022.
# Hamza Mansoor

Hamza Mansoor is the secretary-general of the Islamic Action Front in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

## Sourced

* I am in favor of Iran, and all Arab Muslim countries, having nuclear energy both for peaceful and military purposes, because Allah said to us: "Prepare against them all the force you can.
** Jordanian Islamist Leader Hamza Mansour: All Arab and Islamic Countries Should Have Nuclear Bombs to Deter the U.S. and Israel May 2006.
* The Koran says: "You shall find the bitterest of people in enmity against the believers to be the Jews and the polytheists."
** This is the nature that makes matza out of innocent children's blood Comment in the wake of the killing of Hamas leader Ahmad Yassin March 2004.

## External links

* http://www.jabha.net/
# Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (born 5 February 1968) is a Turkish diplomat and politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey since 24 November 2015.

## Quotes

* It is not possible to give up our rights and interests in the Eastern Mediterranean just because sanctions will come or because the EU will criticize us,
** [https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/eu-sanctions-wont-change-turkeys-position-in-emed/2076856 'EU sanctions won't change Turkey's position in E.Med' (December 14, 2020)
# Ryan Zinke

Ryan Keith Zinke (November 1, 1961 –) is an American politician and businessman who served as United States Secretary of the Interior in the Trump Administration from 2017 until his resignation in 2019. He previously served as the U.S. Representative for Montana's at-large congressional district from 2015 to 2017. From 2009 to 2013, he served as a member of the Montana Senate, representing the 2nd district.

## Quotes

* Without question, our public lands are America’s treasure and are rich in diversity. I fully recognize and appreciate that there are lands that deserve special recognition and are better managed under the John Muir model of wilderness, where man is more of an observer than an active participant.
* During the recent centennial of our National Park Service, I found myself at the ceremony at Yellowstone National Park, our first National Park established by Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. As I enjoyed the celebration under the famous Roosevelt arch, I could not help but notice the words etched in the stone at the top of the arch “For the benefit and enjoyment of the people.” And, on the side of the right pillar was a plaque with the words “Created by Act of Congress.” I thought “What a perfect symbol’ of what our land policy in a Nation as great as ours should be.
** Before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (January 17, 2017)
* I'm a geologist, and I don't consider myself a genius, but I'm a pretty smart guy.
** Speaking at a Senate Appropriations hearing (21 June 2017)

## Quotes about Ryan Zinke

* And I have to say, really, talk about a very special guy that I made Secretary of the Interior. Does he know the interior — he knows it, he loves it. He loves seeing it and riding on it.
** Donald Trump speaking at Utah State Capitol (4 December 2017)
* Ryan Zinke is not, in fact, a geologist. He has never been a geologist. What he did is major in geology in college, which does not make you a geologist. All it does is qualify you to watch the movie San Andreas and whisper to your friend, "It wouldn't happen like that."
** John Oliver on his Last Week Tonight show (22 April 2018)
# Don Young

Donald Edwin "Don" Young (June 9, 1933 – March 18, 2022) was an American politician and retired educator serving as the U.S. representative for Alaska's at-large congressional district since 1973. He was the Republican Party's longest-serving member of the House of Representatives and of Congress in history, having represented Alaska for 25 terms.
Young was the longest-serving member of Congress, as well as the last remaining member who has been in office since the Nixon Administration; he became the 45th dean of the House of Representatives on December 5, 2017, after John Conyers resigned. He was also the oldest current member of Congress.

## Quotes

* Environmentalists are a self-centered bunch of waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual idiots who are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.
** Dickinson, Tim (2006-10-17). The 10 Worst Congressmen. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2007-06-07.
# Joseph Wood Krutch

Joseph Wood Krutch (pronounced krootch) (November 25, 1893 – May 22, 1970) was an American writer, critic, pantheist, and naturalist.

## Quotes

* In New England the struggle for existence is visibly the struggle of plant with plant, each battling his neighbor for sunlight and for the spot of ground which, so far as moisture and nourishment are concerned, would support them all. Here, the contest is not so much of plant against plant as of plant against inanimate nature. The limiting factor is not the neighbor but water; and I wonder if that is, perhaps, one of the things which make makes this country seem to enjoy a kind of peace one does not find elsewhere.
** The Desert Year. University of Iowa Press. 15 April 2010. p. 23. ISBN 9781587299476. 1st edition. William Sloane Associates. 1951.
* When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.
** The Great Chain of Life (1956), Chapter 9 "The Vandal and the Sportsman". Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009, p. 148.
** Variation (Colin Fletcher, The Man Who Walked Through Time (1972), p. 230 ): When a man despoils a work of art we call him a vandal, when he despoils a work of nature we call him a developer.
* Outside a million windows, a million birds had sung as morning swept around the globe. Few men and few women were so glad that a new day had dawned as these birds seem to be.... We are likely to awake with an "Oh, dear!" on our lips; they with a "What fun!" in their beaks."
** The Great Chain of Life (1956), Epilogue
# Ante Jozić

Ante Jozić (16 January 1967) is a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church who works in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.

## Quotes

* Today I pray in a special way for peace and harmony in this country, so that with God's help and through the intercession of Our Lady of Budslau we can overcome.
** Nuncio prays for peace and harmony in Belarus at renowned Marian shrine (6 July 2021) Catholic News Agency
# Valentine Kalumba

Valentine Kalumba (16 January 1967) is a Zambian prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of Livingstone.

## Quotes

* The desire to be heard is one of the most basic human demands in today's world. Communication does not take place if listening has not taken place, and there is no good journalism without the ability to listen well. Society is losing the ability to listen well both in everyday interactions and when debating issues of society.
** Appeal from Africa for the 56th World Communications Day: "Let us rediscover the ability to listen to the other" (30 May 2022) Fides News Agency
# Agustín Laje Arrigoni

Agustín Laje Arrigoni (16 January 1989) is an Argentine political commentator.

## Quotes

* Catholics and Evangelicals both asked to participate in the march and share the same stage. Pastors and bishops spoke there, as well as lay people, both Catholics and Evangelicals. This is the type of unity that is needed to confront the attack of gender ideology, which endangers everyone's families regardless of their beliefs, which coerces everyone's individual freedoms regardless of the church each person attends.
** March against gender ideology in schools held in Puerto Rico (16 August 2021) Catholic News Agency
# Paolo Manna

Paolo Manna (16 January 1872 – 15 September 1952) was the founder of the Pontifical Missionary Union.

## Quotes

* Missionaries, also from the human viewpoint, have been excellent people... but neither brilliance nor prudence, nor courage have made them great in our eyes and the eyes of God. They have been great, they have saved many souls, they have founded Churches, mainly because they were holy men, that is, spiritual men. This is the secret, the soul of their zeal, their perseverance and their success; this is the solemn teaching they have handed down to us and which I love to remind you of.
** “Holiness is the Soul of Mission” Press Office of the Holy See

## Quotes about Paolo Manna

* The missionary zeal that consumed the Blessed Paolo Manna, and from which sprang the Pontifical Missionary Union, still continues today to inflame, excite, renew, rethink and reform the service that this work is called to offer to the whole Church.
** Pope Francis, Pope at the Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies: "We need to grow in evangelical passion (6 June 2016) Fides News Agency
# Asesela Ravuvu

Asesela Ravuvu (10 May 1931 — 11 March 2008) was a Fijian academic and Senator since 2001.

## Quotes
### Interview with Pacific Journalism Online, 28 May 2000

* (When) the people of the land no longer have the power to select and install their leaders, the chiefs lose their mana or power.
* It is high time that the people are given back the flexibility and power to select and install their leaders who will be accountable to them if they are to prosper and forge ahead in the present modern and increasingly global context.

### Façade of Democracy (1991)

* Fijians generally perceive Indians as mean and stingy, crafty and demanding to the extent of being considered greedy, inconsiderate and grasping, uncooperative, egotistic, and calculating.
* Indians on the other hand, view Fijians as "jungalis" or bushwhackers, still behind the times and backward, naive and foolish, and generally poor. They are seen as lazy, proud and extravagant, pound-foolish and undependable.These perceptions of each other are nearly always subdued and latent yet only need some slight provocations to bring them to the fore, which at times culminates in open physical confrontations."
# Josefa Vosanibola

Josefa Bole Vosanibola is a Fijian politician, who served as Minister for Home Affairs from 16 December 2004, when he was appointed by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase to succeed Joketani Cokanasiga, to 5 December 2006, when his government was deposed in a military coup.

## Quotes

* We welcome constructive criticism and will abide by our commitment to address the concern of the community at large on the issue.
** Fiji Live, 22 November 2005: Comments on the Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill
* Peace, reconciliation and unity are sentiments meant not only for the person next door but for all people.
** Fiji Live, 22 November 2005: Comments on the Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Unity Bill

### Speech to the House of Representatives, 12 August 2005

* It was the scriptures that urged the people of this land to be tolerant and forgiving of others, even though they disagreed with their values and ways of life.
* Instead we tell the church to shut its mouth and even condemn it when at times it chooses to illuminate issues on a spiritual and moral basis, when it points to the need for tolerance, repentance, forgiving and sharing — the same principles it professed in the early days that chartered the course of modern day.
* Indeed all people of this country owe a vote of gratitude to the church for what it has done to this country in the course of our civilisation. I urge us to recognise this and offer our thanks to the church for its part in shaping the course of our history.
* Repentance, tolerance, forgiveness and sharing to name a few, are some divinely empowered words and processes without which it is difficult to see, how we could be here today as an active member of the international community.
* Fijians understand that unless their sovereignty is reinstated their status is subject to the manoeuvre of politicking. They feel that their status is devoid of its proper authority and spirit. When Fijians continue to feel this way, its impact on the longer term stability and security of our country is a matter that should be addressed and resolved amicably.
# Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959) is an American lawyer and New York State Democratic Party politician. He was the 54th Governor of New York (2007–2008).

## Quotes

* Never talk when you can nod and never nod when you can wink and never write an e-mail, because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need.
** Warning to criminals.
** Pressure Mounts on Spitzer to Resign Over Sex Scandal. PBS NewsHour (March 11, 2008). Retrieved on 2012-10-15.
* One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.
** William D. Cohan (July 1, 2012). How Wall Street Scams Counties into Bankruptcy. Bloomberg L.P.. Retrieved on 2012-10-15.
# Jim Risch

Jim Risch (born 3 May 1943) is an American Republican politician, rancher, and attorney from Ada County, Idaho, currently serving as the junior United States Senator from Idaho. He previously served as the 39th and 41st Lieutenant Governor (2003–2006, 2007–2009) and the 31st Governor (2006–2007) of Idaho.

## Quotes

* [On the victims of the hurricane Katrina] "Here in Idaho, we couldn't understand how people could sit around on the kerbs waiting for the federal government to come and do something. We had a dam break in 1976, but we didn't whine about it. We got out our backhoes and we rebuilt the roads and replanted the fields and got on with our lives. That's the culture here. Not waiting for the federal government to bring you drinking water. In Idaho there would have been entrepreneurs selling the drinking water."
** Quoted in Guardian, August 31, 2007.
* He gave a good speech at the end, but as you pointed out already, there was a horrendous gaffe right at the end of it. I wish he would stay on script… I think most people who don’t deal in the lane of foreign relations don’t realize that those nine words that he uttered would cause the kind of eruption they did. But anytime you say, or even as he did suggest, that the policy was regime change, it’s gonna cause a huge problem
** RISCH ON CNN’S STATE OF THE UNION: BIDEN WAS MISTAKEN TO CALL FOR REGIME CHANGE IN RUSSIA (MARCH 27, 2022)
# Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki (13 May 1901 – 25 May 1948) was a Polish cavalry captain, the founder of a WWII resistance movement Secret Polish Army ("Tajna Armia Polska"), who deliberately let himself get caught and imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to organize resistance there.

## Quotes

   * After the announcement of the death sentence.
* I found a joy in myself, coming from the awareness that I want to fight.
* Dlatego więc piszę niniejszą petycję,
    By sumą kar wszystkich – mnie tylko karano,
    Bo choćby mi przyszło postradać me życie –
    Tak wolę – niż żyć, a mieć w sercu ranę.
    (Therefore I am writing the present petition/ So that only I may be punished with the sum of all our sentences,/ As—though it would fall upon me to lose my life—/ I prefer it so. —To staying alive with a wound in my heart).
   * The last stanza of the poem Dla Pana Pułkownika Różańskiego ("For Colonel Różański"), written by Pilecki on May 14, 1947 to the supervisor of his case in the 10th Block of the Mokotów Prison.
* If Józef Cyrankiewicz finds out I'm here, I'm dead.
   * In prison, 1948.
* The game which I was now playing in Auschwitz was dangerous. This sentence does not really convey the reality; in fact, I had gone far beyond what people in the real world consider dangerous.
* I was not a[n intelligence] resident, only a Polish officer. I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was a spy, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.
   * During his trial, 1948.
* So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live anymore, they've done me. Auschwitz was just a child's play.
   * Having just been sentenced to death, 1948.
* I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear.
   * After the announcement of the death sentence.
* During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people were killed. Over the next 2 years, 3 Million.
   * Witold's Report. (1943)

## References

* ↑ Bartłomiej Kuraś, Witold Pilecki – w Auschwitzu z własnej woli, „Ale Historia”, w: „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 22 kwietnia 2013.
* ↑ Gazeta Wyborcza, Odsłonięto pomnik poświęcony rotmistrzowi Pileckiemu, 25.05.2011 .
* ↑ Lawrence W. Reed, Witold Pilecki: Bravery Beyond Measure, 23 October 2015
* ↑ Ewa K. Czaczkowska, Chcą beatyfikacji Pileckiego, Rzeczpospolita. Nr 249 (8150), 24 October 2008, p. A9
* ↑ Bartłomiej Kuraś, Witold Pilecki – w Auschwitzu z własnej woli, „Ale Historia”, w: „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 22 kwietnia 2013.