1997

Explore 64 quotes from the year 1997

We are not the masters. The people are the masters. We are the servants of the people... What the electorate gives, the electorate can take away.

Tony Blair

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Topic

Elections Democracy Political theory Politics

Speaker

Tony Blair

Source

Speeches of Tony Blair

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Blair, Tony. Addressing Labour MPs on the first day of the new Parliment. 7 May 1977, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

It is a terrible shame for me-I came back, still alive, without having won the war.

Shoichi Yokoi

On returning to Japan after surviving for 28 years in the jungles of Guam before surrendering to the Americans in 1972.

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Topic

World War II Shame

Speaker

Shoichi Yokoi

Source

Independent

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Yokoi, Shoichi. Quoted in "Obituary: Shoichi Yokoi." Written by James Kirkup. The Independent, 25 Sept. 1997.

Our foreign policy must have an ethical dimension and must support the demands of other people for the democratic rights on which we insist for ourselves.

Robin Cook

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Topic

Morality in foreign policy Foreign policy International politics

Speaker

Robin Cook

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cook, Robin. Mission statement. 12 May 1997, UK.

It isn't just that I don't believe in God... It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

Thomas Nagel

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Topic

Belief in God Existence of God

Author

Thomas Nagel

Source

The Last Word

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Nagel, Thomas. The Last Word. Oxford University Press, 1997, ch. 7.