Quotes by F. W. De Klerk - Page 1

I believe that first impressions are very important.
F. W. De Klerk /
Believe I Believe Important
First Impressions
Impressions
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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Concept
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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Hands-On
Mandela
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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
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Apartheid
Honor
Prefer
Claim
Ended
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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Dynamic
One Party
Two-Thirds
Wins
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Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
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Above
Conflicts
Horizons
Owe
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
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Conditions
Ask
Constantly
Create
Prosper
Quest
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What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
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Seeking
African
Concept
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I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
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Apartheid
Apology
Profound
Commission
Front
Injustices
Wrought
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The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
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Meetings
Mandela
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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Adoption
April
Constitution
Democratic
Honour
Interim
Work Me Process
Mr
Elections
Led
Mandela
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It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
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Fortunate
Looking Back
South Africa
Time Work Together
Africa
Developed
Work Time Together
From Time To Time
Mandela
Strains
Work Together
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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Evolve
Achieved
Cabinet
Circle
Discussions
Inner
Policies
Predecessor
Preferred
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I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
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February
Fulfilled
Envisaged
Frame
Implemented
Laid
Plan
Properly
Table
Time Frame
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
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Accepted
Court
Legislation
Undermining
From Time To Time
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The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
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History
Aggression
Caught
Forever
Goal
Mindless
Progress
Self Destruction
Universal
Ask
Turning
Must
Making
Question
Treadmill
Toward
Whether
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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Admiration
Ingenious
Substance
Time War Long
War Time Long
Discuss
Expressing
Generals
Mandela
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I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
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Abandon
Apartheid
Book
Discrimination
Equal
Equal Rights
Rights
South
South Africa
United
Vision
Accept
Africa
Played
Forms
Part
Integral
Integral Part
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The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.
F. W. De Klerk /
Finance
April
Convinced
Decades
Principles
South Africa
Africa
Budget
Elections
Drafted
Minister
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