I am always optimistic about independence in East Timor.
More Quotes from Xanana Gusmao:
What concerns me is not the revelation of the truth, which is already common knowledge,Xanana Gusmao
The numbers and figures can be disputed, but the essential purpose is not only to remind our future generation not to commit all that happened here, again in East Timor, but also to remind the international community to try to do everything so that it doesn't happen again elsewhere.
Xanana Gusmao
We all have to embrace in national unity ... avoid radicalism and learn politics.
Xanana Gusmao
If we continue to roam, with no strength to enforce the law right at the beginning of our independence, by the time corruption develops deep roots it will be most difficult to combat it,
Xanana Gusmao
I already told them, if you suffered, if you could forget yourself, your family, everything for 24 years, please don't give up, and wait. Your obligation now is to wait, more than our people, to be more patient.
Xanana Gusmao
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.Allison Janney
It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.
Syd Barrett
I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.
Ville Valo