Territories Quotes

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

(1998 quote on his career) In any craft or artistic endeavor you want to do different things. You want to go to different places, you want to find different ways to go about it. You may have your constants, but you`re looking to go into new territories, new angles, new challenges. So that`s how it is for me as an actor. I couldn`t play the same guy eight times and I don`t have to. I think I`ve said all of my career, I`m not a celebrity. I`m not a movie star. I`m just an actor who is more popular right now. I don`t even know what a movie star is. And one of the reasons why I keep on going back to make movies that don`t have such huge budgets is that it`s not as much pressure. You feel like you can take more chances.

(on hearing that Elijah Wood told a reporter that Monaghan, Wood, and Billy Boyd were considering sharing a home in New Zealand:) "He has all these grand plans. We did look at property in New Zealand. What we`re going to do first, correct me if I`m wrong, is we`re going to buy property in our respective territories. Billy is going to buy a beautiful little cottage in Edinburgh and Elijah is going to buy some in L.A." (Boyd corrected him, "Glasgow!") (December 12, 2003)

I was crushed when Bush got re-elected. I was so depressed and am still gravely disappointed with the results of both elections. I think history will verify that the world would have been a much better place if the outcome had not been that way. I`m never going to be invited for tea at the White House. But I`ve never gone on stage - before the elections or since - and slagged off Bush. Not because I agree with him in any way, out of respect for the office of President. It`s too obvious to bash Bush. Everybody knows what I think about his policies. We went to a local bar for a couple of drinks to cheer ourselves up. On the way home we passed a couple who were in their sixties. I could see the recognition in their eyes so I said, `How ya doing?`. The old guy replied, `I only got one thing to say to you` - and put his hand in the sign of a `W`. I went bananas - and that wasn`t one tenth of how badly my wife reacted. Needless to say, it`s been a difficult last couple of years. It`s heartbreaking many people now view Americans with suspicion. At one time, we were everybody`s best friend. We could go to places perceived as dangerous territories. Now, I`d think twice about asking our road crew to travel there. (May 2006)

We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can`t continue like that.

In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn`t take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn`t belong to anyone.

As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

I don`t understand how we can justify the occupied territories. It serves no goal, except the political goal of Sharon within Israel.

Ontario, therefore urges the federal government, in consultation with the provinces and territories, to undertake an immediate high priority review of the current firearms provisions in the Criminal Code as set out in this paper.

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

Tonight we celebrate the value of sport as a means of bringing together people of 71 nations and territories, and from a wide range of cultures, traditions and beliefs. It gives me the greatest pleasure to declare the 18th Commonwealth Games open.

What an incredible honor. I spoke with Pam Wilson , who is our Publicist handling our international territories, and she told me that the show is licensed in over two hundred territories around the globe. That is mind-boggling to me. So thank you to everyone out there who support us by watching. We think of you all the time, and are humbled by your dedication.

However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there.

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

At the same time, we must find ways to maintain humanitarian assistance and avoid a spiral into human suffering in the Palestinian territories.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

No threats will prevent us from continuing the struggle to liberate the occupied Arab territories and establish a just and durable peace in the region,

These will be a great help in shaping the budget measures provide real insights into the hopes and concerns of Canadians from all provinces and territories.

I never think we should just come and say we need more money, ... I think the provinces, territories and federal governments need to sit down and say to each other, `What are the highest-priority needs?` for Canadians.

Creative people who can`t help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.