What are the most profound words you heard from a foreign leader?

[n2mark]

[n2mark]

1. Are there any words of wisdom?

[EVDebs]

2. Stalin said it first, and later Churchill ends with the credit...

"‘In wartime,’ said Stalin first and Churchill soon afterwards, ‘truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’

http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~litrev/199710/176.html

Apparently the neocons of present feel they have carte blanche !

[Taxloss]

9. Lenin said:

"Liberty is precious. So precious it must be rationed."

[Menshevik]

3. Yeltsin once said

"You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long"

[lachattefolle]

4. Who was the Canadian that said Bushit was a moron?

[EVDebs]

5. Francoise Ducros, said of Bush, "What a moron."

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/11/21/moron021121

we need to find her and send Thank You !'s to her.

[lachattefolle]

6. I'd like to give her a big hug for saying what we all think!

[Taxloss]

8. Drittesekke.

That's Norwegian for "Shitbag". The only reason I know that is because it was the word used by a Norwegian minister to describe a wildly unpopular Conservative British minister in the mid 90s (he thought the mic was off). The country gave a collective cheer.

[Taxloss]

7. Your presidents are fonts of wisdom and truth.

FDR, Jefferson, Lincoln, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Amazing stuff.

Gandhi, when asked the question "What do you think of Western Civilisation?" answered "I think it would be a good idea." That's my favourite.

British PMs, however, although many of them were great wits, could not really inspire. Apart from Churchill.

[MsTryska]

10. Foreing leader only to these times:

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president,
or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
~Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

[bobthedrummer]

11. Nikita S. Krushchev: "We will bury you."

Whatever.

All Power To The People.

[EVDebs]

12. "Berlin is America's testicles which we can squeeze anytime"

is another great Kruschev winner.

[EVDebs]

13. Balzac once said "Behind every great fortune lies a scandal"

Very apropo for today's world.