Thaksin Shinawatra Quotes

The destiny of Russia is unsettled.

The whole Brexit saga is, in my view, one big, terrifying leap in the dark.

It is sure to be a year on the brink of catastrophe or rejuvenation.

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

There's no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?

Every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

What are we going to do when the Wall comes down?

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

We are leaving the E.U. But we have no idea where we are going.

I can't be sure of exactly when and how North Korea will change. But I do believe it will happen, hopefully in my mother's lifetime.

After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.

I'm standing at a crossroads. I'm not entirely sure what the future holds ... I'm at a crossroads, but it's a little bit different than the crossroads I've been at before because I'm doing what I do because I love it, and doing what I do because it's pure passion.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Tomorrow is your future's yesterday.

People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?

In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

Education is at a turning point

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.