Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes
We will wash and clean the ANC, and it will be the ANC you know. The ANC that will work for the people.
Ramaphosa, Cyril. "ANC Election Manifesto Launch." African National Congress, 12 Jan. 2019.
Many of the Ukrainian politicians were very corrupt. When she was the Prime Minister the political culture of corruption was so strong that she was not able to break it. When Tymoshenko had been out of office and imprisoned by the new very corrupt opposition, the Ukrainians rose up and after weeks of street protests, the government collapsed and a new government was formed and Tymoshenko was freed from jail. She made this statement shortly after her release.
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For many people the implication of this quotation is that there should be no government secrets withheld from the citizens who have the right to examine. Others argue that government may have temporary secrets to protect against foreign enemies for example, but that these must be declassified very promptly so that the citizens can examine the actions of their government in time to replace the government if they are not satisfied. Almost all government officials tend to reject the first implication out of hand, and grudgingly accept the second with their discretion controlling when declassification should take place. The problem of America is twofold. There is much over-classification (material kept secret that should not be at all), and the time till declassification is long in general and truly absurd in many cases. For example, there are documents from WWII that by 2013 had still not been declassified. See {591444}, {641317}, and {589105} for exemplar views. William Jennings Bryan introduced this principle into the American political dialogue. See {641027}.
On the possibility of term limitations on members of Congress:
He made this statement to his party colleagues and they pleaded with him not to issue it as a public statement and he agreed.
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is a South African politician serving as President of South Africa since 2018 and President of the African National Congress (ANC) since 2017. Previously an anti-apartheid activist, trade union leader and businessman, Ramaphosa served as Secretary General to President Nelson Mandela, Deputy President to President Jacob Zuma, and Chairman of the National Planning Commission from 2014 to 2018.
