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Portrait of Jose Ramos-Horta

Jose Ramos-Horta

(1949) Politician

18 quotes in 219 categories

This concise collection gathers Jose Ramos-Horta’s most resonant thoughts, offering a clear sense of his philosophical and moral concerns without overwhelming the reader.

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Jose Ramos-Horta is a politician, best known for Timor-Leste.

Quick Facts About Jose Ramos-Horta

Born: December 26, 1949
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Timor-Leste

About Jose Ramos-Horta

José Manuel Ramos-Horta is an East Timorese politician who has been the seventh president of Timor-Leste since 2022, having previously been the fourth president from 2007 to 2012. He was a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, for working "towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jose Ramos-Horta

“Sometimes, a war saves people.”

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Humanitarian intervention

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I believe in being compassionate,

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Believe

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We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

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Believe

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Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.

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Care

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More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

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Arms

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We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need…

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Aid

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Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open…

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Also

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The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure…

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Access

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The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of…

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Affected

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It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during…

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Been

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Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and…

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About

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We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received…

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Conservative

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We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are…

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Assistance

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The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the…

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Commission

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Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are…

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Arms

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In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for…

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Aggression

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The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been…

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Amnesty

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“As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an…

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1978

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