Notable Quotes

I do not have time for black and white. We need to market the region as a team – Karas governor Bernardus Swartbooi has called for white communities to get involved in national events.

A red light to the regime. This is a warning. – Businessman Said Abdel-Motalib said the civil unrest in Egypt is a warning. Thousands of Egyptians have vented their rage against President Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic government for two straight days of protests that defied a ban on public gatherings. We were wrong. It was wrong. It shouldn’t have happened, but there are some dark forces at work here. – English football commentator Richard Keys has resigned from Sky Sports in the wake of the row over sexist comments he made in a series of off-air recordings. Please, let’s not press panic buttons unnecessarily. – The ANC on Thursday called on South Africans to remain calm after former president Nelson Mandela was admitted to hospital in Johannesburg.Except for Gbagbo and his group, everyone accepts the results as they came out. – former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said if Laurent Gbagbo were to stay in power in Ivory Coast despite losing a presidential election, it would be a setback for the whole of Africa.We are asking Interpol to find all those who fled, including the president and this woman, for trial in Tunisia. – Tunisian Justice Minister Lazhar Karoui Chebbi said the interim government which came to power after the revolt wanted to bring to justice Ben Ali, his wife Leila Trabelsi and other family members. We should not put off to tomorrow what we are able to do today. – Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced a new tax to help pay for devastating floods that she says will cost A$5,6 billion.The police that are at the large transport centres, in airports, at railway stations, take an absolutely passive position. – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired a federal transport police chief on Wednesday and lashed out at officers who guard Russia’s airports and rail stations after an airport suicide bombing killed 35 people.Today in historyPainting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. – Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28 1912 – August 11 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life.Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29 1954) is an American television host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history.The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people. – Sven Olof Joachim Palme Olof Palme (January 30 1927 – February 28 1986) was a Swedish politician. Palme was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986. He was also the Prime Minister of Sweden twice during this period. Olof Palme was also a pivotal figure in international politics in the 1970s and 1980s as he practiced non-alignment and also aided many third world liberation movements. Palme’s murder was the first of its kind in modern Swedish history and had a great impact across Scandinavia.