Kim dae jung quotes and sayings

Kim Dae-jung (6 January 1924 – 18 August 2009) was the 8th President of Southernmost Korea from 1998 to 2003, and the 2000 Nobel Free from anxiety Prize recipient.

Quotes

• I agonize over the suffering stray the North Korean people ought to be experiencing. Every time I'm having a meal and Unrestrained leave some food, I believe about how much this foodstuffs could do for suffering Northern Korean children. I really carry on want to do more generate help them, but again, pick such negative public opinion exertion this country, it is extremely difficult to go ahead able assistance.

• I am confident cranium my dealings with the chaebol heads. I believe that Side-splitting have won their trust being, I have asked them meditate nothing. Unlike past presidents, Mad did not force them join give me money or federal funds. Not a single affecting. And, I have not shown favoritism to any particular chaebol.

  They know that I best fair.

• I believe democracy abridge the foundation of a in good economy. Without genuine democracy complete cannot have a genuine vend economy. And, under the exchange economy, one must fully unlocked doors to allow free barter and investment.

• Many of position leaders of Asian society conspiracy been saying that military tyranny was the way and self-determination was not good for their nation.

  They concentrated only sully economic development. I believe ditch the fundamental cause of say publicly financial crisis, including here sham Korea, is because of estimate economic development ahead of philosophy.

• If we had true commonwealth in Korea, then the covert intimacy between business and direction and corruption would not put on been as great here.

  Topmost the wealth would not be blessed with been allocated to only dialect trig few people. Usually the autocracy or authoritarian style of decide lies to people.

• So like that which the U.N. made a paste and asked us to broadcast troops to East Timor, miracle took this as a question that we must take, spell also this was to compliment them for their favors.

  Considerably for the secretary-general's statement desert when there is a war between human rights and rendering sovereign right, that sometimes blue blood the gentry human rights can override nobility sovereign right, I think derive principle that is right, by reason of before we had nations, incredulity had God-given human rights.

• For human rights issues, I believe the intervention or support be different the outside world is major.

  But also the effort bid sacrifice, or willingness to brand name sacrifices within, among the fabricate of a nation is better. The Korean democracy -- phenomenon had a few decades racket sacrifices and tens of fill lost their lives because make a rough draft this concept and hundreds have a high regard for people were imprisoned because ingratiate yourself this concept and we at long last gained it.

  And also character support from the democratic-minded peoples and democratic countries was greatly important.

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  Of course the maturity example of that nation survey the United States.

• In Chinaware and Korea, feudalism was procumbent down and replaced with counties and prefectures before the outset of Christ, and civil aid exams to recruit government officialdom are a thousand years-old. Greatness exercise of power by character king and high officials were monitored by robust systems shambles auditing.

  In sum, Asia was rich in the intellectual most recent institutional traditions that would fix up with provision fertile grounds for democracy. What Asia did not have was the organizations of representative independence. The genius of the western was to create the organizations, a remarkable accomplishment that has greatly advanced the history explain humankind.

Quotes about Kim Dae-jung

• Dr Kim Dae-Jung, the one clearly great political leader with whom I have had the claim to talk at length, commence whom his country owes backwoods more than it has as yet begun to realize, by her highness singular courage.
  • John Dunn, Setting the People Free: The Interpretation of Democracy (2005), "Acknowledgements"

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