In Our Time

spirit" 4 April 1967. Julius Nyerere "Socialism is an attitude of mind" 10 April 1967. Gamal Abdel Nasser "We are determined that the Palestine question will not be liquidated or forgotten" 26 May 1967; "We are now ready to deal with the entire Palestine question" 29 May 1967. Richard Nixon "North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that" 3 November 1969. Richard Nixon "Mistakes, yes. But for personal gain, never" 9 August 1974. Pierre Trudeau "The bringing home of our constitution marks the end of a long winter" 17 April 1982. Neil Kinnock "I warn you that you will have pain" 7 June 1983; "We are democratic socialists. We care all the time" 15 May 1987. Ronald Reagan "Isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments" 6 June 1984. Mario Cuomo "For the love of God: Please, make this nation remember how futures are built" 16 July 1984. Jesse Jackson "Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. In the end faith will not disappoint" 18 July 1984. Richard von Weizsacker "Anyone who closes his eyes to the past is blind to the present" 8 May 1985. Margaret Thatcher "Let Europe be a family of nations... relishing our national identity no less than our common European endeavour" 20 September 1988. Mikhail Gorbachev "Freedom of choice is a universal principle to which there should be no exceptions" 7 December 1988. Nelson Mandela "A rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world" 10 May 1994. Seamus Heaney "The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine" 7 December 1995. Fidel Castro "Socialism or death!" 1 January 1999. Anita Roddick "By putting our money where our heart is...we will mould the world into a kinder, more loving shape" 27 November 1999. Tony Blair "Our policies only succeed when the realism is as clear as the idealism" 2 October 2001. Orhan Pamuk "Whatever the country, freedom of thought and expression are universal human rights" 25 April 2006. Kevin Rudd "As of today, the time for denial, the time for delay, has at last come to an end" 13 February 2008. Barack Obama "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union" 18 March 2008. Index. Acknowledgments/credits.