Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

The Cherokee Nation has had a government for a long, long, long time. We had a government in this country long before there was a United States government.

Canada has, entrenched in our Constitution, a world-leading recognition of Indigenous rights.

The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'

There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what resources we have in terms of land and rights.

The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.'

A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.

The more I heard, the more I've learned, and the more I saw, the more resolved I became about helping to address the challenges that plague the Native American community.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

Ministers do not function well when they are unsure of their authority or of their standing with the Leader [ the Prime Minister]

I acknowledge the traditional owners of this land whose rights extend from the distant past unbroken to this day and into the future, and I renew my commitment to act in support of Aboriginal land rights.

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because they had it first; it is theirs. They may sell, but all must join. Any sale not made by all is not valid.

Indians are immigrants like everyone else, they just came earlier

Brother when we came here to relate our grievances about our lands, we expected to have something done for us .... You are not to expect to hear of me any more, and brother we desire to hear no more of you.

Canada can't be preaching about human rights and democracy elsewhere until it starts dealing with its aboriginal people in Canada.

This is one victory that Canada cannot deny to aboriginal people.

… those white people who live closest to Indians are always the most prejudiced against them and the most desirous of obtaining their lands. We have always had a better chance of obtaining justice from Washington than from the state or local government…. our treaties are with the United States.

The Indians are acknowledged to have an unquestionable … right to the lands they occupy.

Is the role of the prime minister to cultivate political leadership in Israel? My answer is yes.

One of the first things that the First Nations are going to have to decide is, is it going to 640 communities, or is it, in fact, going to be some 50 to 60 nations.

Before I became prime minister, as mayor of Jerusalem, I became world-renowned because of my fight for the unity of Jerusalem.

My childhood dream was to be prime minister.