Political Quotes

“I would like to paint this image in the mind of the people in the country. And that is that as we see people demonstrating in the streets of Lebanon, when they have made the pledge that they are not leaving the public arena until they are a government governed by themselves and that they are a free people, that magnificent display that is going on in Lebanon today, as I watched that, I looked back through my mind's eye and I asked myself where I have experienced anything like that before; where I have seen anything like that in history. It takes me back to the square in Prague, back in the early 1990s, after the Berlin Wall came down. That was about November 9 when the wall came down, and it echoed into about 1990, right before the Czechs went to the square and stood there with their keys and rattled their keys in the air. They stood for freedom, until today they are a free people. That miracle of freedom that echoed across Eastern Europe in that time was not something anyone predicted.”