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# Asha-Rose Migiro

Asha-Rose Migiro (born 9 July 1956) is a Tanzanian politician and diplomat who was the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2007 to 2012. She was appointed as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa on 13 July 2012
After serving at the United Nations, Migiro returned to Tanzania and was appointed cabinet minister in the cabinet of Jakaya Kikwete. She later entered the race to become the CCM candidate in the 2015 presidential elections, but lost the nomination to the eventual winner John Magufuli

## Quotes

* Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come
** Asha Rose Migiro Quotes
# Helen Clark

Helen Elizabeth Clark (born 26 February 1950) is a New Zealand politician who served as the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008, and was the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017.

## Quotes

* Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
** Quoted in David Barber, "PROFILE: Helen Clark, new chief of UN Development Programme," Asia-Pacific News (26 March 2006)
* If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.
** Quoted in David Barber, "PROFILE: Helen Clark, new chief of UN Development Programme," Asia-Pacific News (26 March 2006)
* I believe I'm the best person for the job. Obviously I'm a woman, but I've never sought election on the basis of being a woman. I've always sought election as the best person for the job.
** Quoted in "'I have the skills for the job' - Helen Clark on bid for top UN job" (5 April 2016)
* People weren’t used to the prospect of a woman becoming prime minister so there were attacks about my appearance, my voice and even my clothing. But I found that there was little point dwelling on such criticism. I just had to look straight ahead and get on with the task at hand and, by and large, that strategy worked for me. I think women politicians today are more confident in being able to call out such behaviour than I was at a time when it was very rare to have many women in parliament.
** Quoted in Gitika Bhardwaj, Helen Clark on why the world needs more women to tackle global crises (8 March 2022)
* The carrot is a happy and harmonious society, the only stick is shame.
** On the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference goals – Reuters (23 September 2015)
* We have a lot of issues to sort through, most of them because of the pandemic. 11 million girls have not returned to school since 2020 and that’s a problem we should solve. I believe in Women Deliver’s ability to build solidarity and find solutions while sticking to the themes,”
** Women Deliver delegates on the importance of open dialogue The New Times (July 18, 2023)
# Achim Steiner

Achim Steiner (born 17 May 1961 in Brazil) is a German expert in environmental politics. He is UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

## Quotes

* Decoupling growth from environmental degradation is the number one challenge facing governments in a world of rising numbers of people, rising incomes, rising consumption demands and the persistent challenge of poverty alleviation.
** "UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet", The Guardian, (June 2, 2010)
* Restoration of peatlands is a low hanging fruit, and among the most cost-effective options for mitigating climate change.
** IUCN UK Commission of Inquiry on Peatlands Full Report, IUCN UK Peatland Programme (October 2011), page 8.
# David Beckham

David Robert Joseph Beckham OBE (born 2 May 1975) is an English former footballer.

## Quotes

* Soccer is a magical game.
** As quoted in David Beckham Pays Tribute to Legendary Pelé (March 20, 2008), People (magazine)
* Tom Cruise, he’s a lot more famous than me.
** As quoted in BECKSWATCH: The countdown begins (October 22, 2010) by Amy Edwards, The Newcastle Herald
# Muhammad Zafrulla Khan

Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Sahib (February 6, 1893 – September 1, 1985), known as Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, was a Pakistani diplomat, Pakistan’s first foreign minister. From 1954 till 1961, he served the International Court of Justice in The Hague as judge.

## Quotes

* Good government can be no substitute for self-government.
** Proceedings of the 8th session of the UN General Assembly, 1953
# Percy Spender

Sir Percy Claude Spender (5 October 1897 - 3 May 1985) was an Australian politician, diplomat, and judge. He served in the House of Representatives from 1937 to 1951, including as a cabinet minister under Robert Menzies and Arthur Fadden. He was later Ambassador to the United States (1951–1958) and a member of the International Court of Justice (1958–1967), including as president of the court from 1964 to 1967.

## Quotes

* It seems to me from what I have learned that here in these gentle surroundings have been discovered the true functions of a university and its task of sending out into the world not only men of high educational and cultural standards, but men also of vision, of courage, of honesty and decision.
** As quoted in the Kaleidoscope (1956), yearbook of Hampden-Sydney College, p. 4
# Maurice Duplessis

Maurice Duplessis (born April 20, 1890, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada; died September 7, 1959, Schefferville, Québec, Canada); controversial Premier of Québec from 1936 to 1940 and 1944 to 1959.

## Quotes

* Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive!
** Bill 43, Québec Legislative Assembly, January 14, 1954
* This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.
** Response to the 1949 asbestos miners' strike on CBC radio.

## Quotes about Maurice Duplessis

* The period leaves no one indifferent. And that was our goal. We present the facts. It's up to the public to decide.
** Stephane Filion, a co-ordinator of a celebration in his hometown of the 40th anniversary of Duplessis' death.
* The saying goes that after the death of every great man there's a long period of ingratitude. I find Maurice Duplessis's period is lasting pretty long.
** Bureau-Dufresne, surviving relative of Duplessis.
* Over the last 40 years, talking about Duplessis has become like talking about the devil himself.
** Jean-Marc Beaudoin, columnist at the Trois-Rivières daily Le Nouvelliste, in 1999.
* If I never read a business page, my admiration for him would be complete.
** Robert Fulford, commenting on Conrad Black's biography of Duplessis.
* Before Duplessis died, we’d all go to church and make our sign [of the cross], and a year later we didn’t go to Mass any more. So we looked for another set of values, one that was all-enveloping, like the Church.
** Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe
# Adélard Godbout

Adélard Godbout (24 September 1892 – 18 September 1956) was a Quebec agriculturalist and politician. He served as Premier of Quebec briefly in 1936, and again from 1939 to 1944. He was also leader of the Parti libéral du Québec.

## Quotes about Adélard Godbout

* Posterity, until now, has been truly inequitable regarding Godbout. It is true, he was responsible [...] of renunciations, if you will, renunciations that this absolutely infernal pressure of wartime made probably inevitable. But it is quite unjust that people forgot that these few years of the Godbout government were also punctuated by three crucial decisions that almost constitute the act of birth of contemporary Quebec. In a few brief years, in only one government mandate, the creation of Hydro-Quebec, the establishment of obligatory instruction and [...] the women's vote.
** Original: La postérité, jusqu'à nouvel ordre, a été vraiment inéquitable à l'égard de Godbout. C'est vrai, il a été responsable [...] de démissions, si on veut, démissions que cette pression absolument infernale du temps de guerre probablement rendait inévitables. Mais c'est assez injuste qu'on ait oublié que ces quelques années du gouvernement Godbout ont été ponctuées également par trois décisions cruciales qui constituent quasiment l'acte de naissance du Québec contemporain. En quelques brèves années, dans un seul mandat de gouvernement, la création de l'Hydro-Québec, l'instauration de l'instruction obligatoire et [...] le vote des femmes.
** By René Lévesque, June 14, 1984.
** Reference: René Lévesque, Mot à Mot, Les Éditions internationales Alain Stanké, 1997.
* Did not Mister Godbout himself – I will surprise many, such a bad historical reputation was made about him – propose in 1948, in all letters, the holding of a referendum to reach [...], let us get ready, "an equal to equal agreement between Quebec and Canada"? It was 32 years ago...
** Original: Monsieur Godbout lui-même – je vais en surprendre plusieurs, on lui a fait tellement une mauvaise réputation historiquement – ne proposait-il pas en 1948, et en toutes lettres, la tenue d'un référendum pour en arriver [...], tenons-nous bien, "à une entente d'égal à égal entre le Québec et le Canada"? Il y a 32 ans de cela...
** By René Lévesque, March 4, 1980, on the day the 1980 referendum question was presented at the National Assembly of Quebec.
** Reference: René Lévesque, Mot à Mot, Les Éditions internationales Alain Stanké, 1997.
# John Horgan

John Joseph Horgan (August 7, 1959 – November 12, 2024) was a Canadian politician serving as the 36th and Premier of British Columbia from July 2017 to November 2022. He was leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party from 2014 to 2022, and MLA for the constituency of Langford-Juan de Fuca and its predecessors from 2005 to 2023.

## Quotes

* I’ve been shaped by the people I’ve met along the way. I’ve had great role models and I’ve had great mentors and a little bit of good luck. Now as a leader in a political movement I want to pay that forward.
* Whenever we go into a pulp town I breathe deep and it reminds me of a positive time in my youth.
* My obligation is to the people of BC, and I will defend that until I am no longer premier.
** About his opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline, as quoted in Canada: Trudeau vows to push ahead with pipeline plans in spite of protests (16 April 2018), The Guardian.
* These are extraordinary events. Not measured before, not contemplated before. [the extreme weather events of 2021 will lead to a host of initiatives to help communities adapt in the future] but there was nothing, nothing that could have been done [to prepare for] a three-times-the-historic-high volume of water travelling through Merritt in one day.
** Death toll in B.C. expected to rise after record flooding devastates province (published November 17 updated November 18)

## External links

* John Horgan NDP Caucus page
* John Horgan MLA
* Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
* John Horgan's Web Page for the 2014 BC NDP Leadership Campaign
* https://twitter.com/jjhorgan on Twitter
* https://twitter.com/PreparedBC [PreparedBC Twitter account]
* https://twitter.com/EmergencyInfoBC [EmergencyInfoBC Twitter account]
# Victoria Azarenka

Victoria Fiodaraŭna Azarenka (born 31 July 1989) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Azarenka is a former world No. 1 in singles, having claimed the top ranking for the first time on 30 January 2012.

## Quotes

* I do want to have interesting discussions because I’m very professional all the time and I do give insightful answers, but unfortunately, the only that comes up in the media is this one question, and I just feel like I’m wasting my time.
* I absolutely lost it yesterday because we work so hard in the Players Council and I just felt so frustrated, like I’m not making a difference and I put a lot of time, a lot of effort and I’m very direct
* I try to be reasonable, I try to compromise, I try to create ideas and we are moving at the slowest pace to get things done. There are some things behind the scenes that we’re working on, but it’s time to get something concrete done
* This is the only sport in the world where you don’t know when you’re going to play. It was 11:00 PM pm yesterday and I didn’t know when I’m going to play. This is unacceptable in any shape or form… I look at it as a player, and it’s ridiculous. I look at it as a fan, and I don’t know which matches I’m going to go watch because I have no clue, unless you’re very fanatical, but we need to appeal to a bigger crowd to watch our sport.
* These late finishes aren’t benefitting anyone. They’re not benefitting fans, tournaments, broadcasting because there are no primetime spots, and it’s impossible to find tennis on TV or anywhere. You’re looking for it like it’s some treasure.
* The night matches have to start earlier: 6PM, 8:30PM slots. We have to have other courts having night matches because, I understand if there’s no match on Center Court, it’s difficult for the tournament. But we need to have a back-up that can be moved to another court. We need to expend a little production on other courts to make sure we cover more for the World Feed and for the TV.
* I believe that would help a little bit more, and we won’t be talking about this every week. If tennis can help itself to have slots of time where we can market, it would be much easier for the tournament.
* I don’t know how it will be received, but if matches could be a little bit shorter. I think the quality of the competition won’t be affected that extremely. There’s tradition, but I don’t think it would change the game to the point where it’s unrecognizable. Maybe a third set is up to 12 points. There has to be some innovation possible.
* I’m the person who will ask questions: ‘Why not? What can be done? What is the solution?’ I’m frustrated because I feel like, we all as a group, all the girls on the Council, every day we work so damn hard. I feel like we are making progress but it’s slow.
* We want to help tennis, we want to help players, and we all want to make more money. That’s obvious, but all of these things tie together. There’s absolute effort to understand compromise, but we have to start moving towards some place.
** Victoria Azarenka has had it, calls for shorter matches, scheduling reform in Cincinnati tennis, 15 August 2023 by David Kane
# René Lévesque

René Lévesque (August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987) was a Québécois politician and journalist who served as the 23rd premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985. He was the first Québécois political leader since Confederation to attempt, through a referendum, to negotiate the political independence of Quebec. Starting his career as a reporter, and radio and television host, he later became known for his eminent role in Quebec's nationalization of hydro, and as an ardent defender of Quebec sovereignty. He was the founder of the Parti Québécois, and before that, a Liberal minister in the Lesage government from 1960 to 1966.

## Quotes

* Il est un temps où le courage et l'audace tranquilles deviennent pour un peuple aux moments clés de son existence la seule forme de prudence convenable. S'il n'accepte pas alors le risque calculé des grandes étapes, il peut manquer sa carrière à tout jamais, exactement comme l'homme qui a peur de la vie.
** There is a time when quiet courage and audacity become for a people at the key moments of its existence the only form of adequate caution. If it does not then accept the calculated risk of the great steps, it can miss its career forever, exactly like the man who is afraid of life.
** On the plaque in front of his statue on the hill of the National Assembly of Quebec.
* Est Québécois qui veut l'être.
** Whoever wants to be a Quebecer is one.
** Victory speech, 1976 Quebec election.
* Je n'ai jamais pensé que je pourrais être aussi fier d'être Québécois.
** I never thought that I could be so proud to be Québécois.
** Victory speech, 1976 Quebec election.
* On n'est pas un petit peuple, on est peut-être quelque chose comme un grand peuple.
** We are not a small people, we are maybe something of a great people.
** Victory speech, 1976 Quebec election.
* Si j'ai bien compris, vous êtes en train de me dire: à la prochaine fois.
** If I understood you well, you are telling me: Next time. (
** Concession speech, 1980 Quebec referendum.
* Mais j'ai confiance qu'un jour... y'a un rendez-vous normal avec l'Histoire que le Québec tiendra, et j'ai confiance qu'on sera là, ensemble, pour y assister.
** But I have confidence that one day... there's a normal rendezvous with History that Quebec will hold, and I have confidence that we shall be there, together, to witness it.
** Concession speech, 1980 Quebec referendum.
* And I would like to say we've got no lesson on that score to take from the McConnells, from anyone that has been dominating Quebec like a bunch of Rhodesians! The white group. If we have colours here you feel it and that is something we will not stand any more. This paternalistic, WASP ... and it is that, typically, WASP arrogance of the ones that have been leading our government and to the slush funds that they contribute to leaving both of our hacked bodies by the road for too long.
** The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power
# Bernard Landry

Bernard Landry (born. March 9, 1937) is a Quebecois lawyer, teacher and politician. He was the 28th Premier of Quebec (2001–2003), the leader of the Opposition (2003–2005) and leader of the Parti Québécois (2001–2005).

## Quotes

* I want to govern provincially no more. I want national independence. […] I took time for this decision because I know all the perils of this mission. I want to ask you to struggle also in order that our country can be born in a close future.
** August 2004 National Council speech announcing his intention to remain leader
* Je suis un homme de causes, de collectivité, pas un individualiste.
** In Micheline Carrier, "Démission de Bernard Landry - Je me souviens...", Les Carnets de Sisyphe 8, June 4, 2005
** Translation: "I am a man of causes, of collectivity, not an individualist."
** Note: this seems to be a marriage of multiple comments made by Landry in his resignation speech; compare the following quotation.
* Je suis un homme de cause, je ne suis pas un individualiste et je pense en mon âme et conscience que je ne pourrais pas servir la société comme je voudrais le faire avec ce niveau d'appui.
** In Radio-Canada, "Biographies: Bernard Landry" , retrieved August 28, 2005
** Translation: "I am a man of causes; I am not an individualist, and in my heart and conscience I do not think I could serve society as I would like to with this level of support."
** Note: quote from Landry's resignation speech, made after winning a party confidence vote by only 76.2%.

## Attributed

* Tous les partis devraient être féministes!
** Translation: "All parties should be feminist!"
# Peter Lougheed

Edgar Peter Lougheed (July 26, 1928 – September 13, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985 as a Progressive Conservative.

## Quotes

* The decline in natural-gas revenues has been dramatic and the degree to which we are dependent on oil revenues, it is time for us to consider an increase in corporate and personal tax.
** NDP releases "extremist of the Day" number 1, quoted in the Edmonton Journal on May 11, 2011, Alberta's NDP (April 9, 2015)
# Ernest Manning

Ernest Charles Manning (September 20, 1908 – February 19, 1996), a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any other premier in the province's history and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history (only after George H. Murray of Nova Scotia). For a period of time, Manning was the longest continually serving democratically elected official in the world. He was also the only member of the Social Credit Party of Canada to sit in the Senate and, with the party shut out of the House of Commons in 1980, was its very last representative in Parliament.

## Quotes

* As long as my colleagues and I have anything to do with the government of this province, we will see to it that Alberta continues to lead the world in the great fight to secure for every man, woman and child complete and permanent freedom from fear and worry and from social and economic insecurity.

## References

* ↑ Geo Takach (2010). Will The Real Alberta Please Stand Up. University of Alberta Press. p. 74.
# Jacques Parizeau

Jacques Parizeau (August 9 1930 - June 1 2015) was a Canadian economist and noted Quebec sovereigntist who was the 26th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from September 26, 1994, to January 29, 1996.

## Quotes

* Can you imagine feds saying we don't like your answers.
** May 15, 2005 - interview on CTV news with reporter/anchorwoman Lisa LaFlamme, Parizeau said the Clarity Act "meant nothing" and would be ignored. "Can you imagine feds saying we don't like your answers," Parizeau told the interviewer, calling such suggestions a "political stunt."
* Well, in a case like this, what do we do? We spit in our hands and we start over!
** Bon, ben, dans un cas comme ça, qu'est-ce qu'on fait? On se crache dans les mains et on recommence!
** 1995 referendum concession speech.
* It is true, it is true that we were beaten, but in the end, by what? By money and certain ethnic votes, essentially.
** C'est vrai, c'est vrai qu'on a été battus, au fond, par quoi? Par l'argent pis des votes ethniques, essentiellement.
** 1995 referendum concession speech.
# Kathleen Wynne

Kathleen O'Day Wynne (born May 21, 1953) is a Canadian politician who served as the 25th Premier of Ontario and Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party from 2013 to 2018. Wynne is the Member of Provincial Parliament for Don Valley West. Wynne was the first female premier of Ontario and the first openly LGBT premier in Canada.

## Quotes

* If you don’t vote, then somebody who looks like me is going to vote, some senior person, older than me, some white person.
** 19 March 2018 Wynne demonizes old, white voters in grasp for votes

## Quotes about Wynne

* They had beautiful kids, and affluence but the sexual energy had become muted, and Kathleen knew ‘there had been a wild woman in me that hadn't been around for a while,’
** 2007, Cate Cochran, "Reconcilable Differences: Marriages End. Families Don't" page 16
* “I waited 18 years for her,” says Rounthwaite. “Basically, from the time I met Kath in 1973, I was just waiting — through her marriage, through my (own) relationship (with a woman) — I just waited all those years.”
** 2014, Linda Diebel, "Nothing beyond her grasp"
* It was during a “group therapy” organized by Wynne that she realized she had “feelings” for a woman in the group who had a crush on her. It was during a weekend getaway with her best friend Jane Rounthwaite to examine a cottage the family wanted to purchase that Wynne began a homosexual affair, breaking her marriage vow to Phil .. After the weekend at the cottage, Rounthwaite moved in with Wynne, while her husband moved down to the basement. To the adults this “made sense,” the author writes, but to the three little children “whose lives were being turned inside out, it didn’t.”
** 2015, Pete Baklinski, The heartbreaking sex-ed Premier Wynne gave her own children
# Jean Drapeau

Jean Drapeau CC GOQ (February 18, 1916 – August 12, 1999) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Montreal from 1954 to 1957 and from 1960 to 1986.

## Quotes

* The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.
** Quoted in Why Chicago didn’t want the Olympics, by Edward McClelland
* Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome.
** Quoted in House Beautiful, vol.133, p. 216
* What the masses want are monuments.
** Quoted in We need politically incorrect mayors by Victor Schukov, West Island Gazette, Saturday, December 3, 2011