Frases de Kamisese Mara

Ratu Kamisese Mara, foi um político fijiano. É considerado como o "Pai da Pátria" das modernas Fiji. Foi primeiro-ministro do país de 1970 a 1992, com um pequena interrupção em 1987, e subsequentemente serviu como presidente entre 1993 a 2000. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Maio 1920 – 18. Abril 2004
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Kamisese Mara: Frases em inglês

“It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.”

(Letter to President Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, 5 December 1987).

“It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.”

Attributed to him posthumously by his friend, business tycoon Hari Punja[citation needed]

“I had been in touch with a lot of people I thought would stand by me in the front row of the scrum, (I) didn't know it was going to collapse.”

Attributed to him posthumously by his friend, business tycoon Hari Punja[citation needed]

“The reconciliation that has been undertaken today will be worthless if investigations into the coup do not reveal the truth behind the staging.”

(Attributed to him by his daughter, Adi Koila Nailatikau in a Senate speech http://www.parliament.gov.fj/hansard/viewhansard.aspx?hansardID=266&viewtype=full, 22 October 2004).
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“At that stage my heart ruled my head.”

concerning the 1987 coups and their aftermath The Fiji Sun http://www.sun.com.fj/

“If the constitution goes, I go.”

(Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).

“I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside … but I will never ever again come back.”

(Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).

“Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.”

(Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).
Independence Day address, 10 October 1970.