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...well aware that no nondemocratic state has ever become truly prosperous for one simple reason: freedom is better than nonfreedom." - during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (BBC profile...
...have the chance to form a stable government after the elections in March 2008. And not just a stable government, but one that will carry out the course that has brought results for all of the past eight years." - Vladimir Putin endorsing Medvedev's candidacy for the top job (BBC...
...here's a spoiler alert: "We are going to be hanging a lot of people like [RBS's Fred Goodwin] from lampposts on April Fool's Day and I can only say let's hope they are just effigies," Chris Knight, one of the march's organizers, told the BBC on Wednesday. "If he winds us up any more, I'm afraid there will be real bankers hanging from lampposts," Knight said, before adding: "Let's hope that that doesn't actually have to happen." A day later, the University of East London, which employs Knight as a professor...
...innocent man. I'll appeal, and I'm sure that I will win." - Maintaining his innocence after being convicted and sentence to death by hanging in 1988. (BBC...
...There's a clinical side to him, and sometimes he keeps his passion under wraps. But he's genuinely funny." -Bruce Hawker, a friend and political consultant. (BBC, March...