
2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005
8 July 2005
Additional remarks about the proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission
2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005
Criticising Punjab state for giving hunting licences to VIPs, as quoted in "VIP Hunters Get Licence To Kill In Punjab" http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main17.asp?filename=ts042206VIP_hunters.asp, Tehelka (22 April 2006)
2001-2010
“No prime-minister in the parliament of letters has, at any time, ventured to introduce a bill”
"Quotations".
Sketches from Life (1846)
Context: No prime-minister in the parliament of letters has, at any time, ventured to introduce a bill for the apprehension of all vagrant inverted commas that may be found trespassing in the sunny places of argument; and to restrain the poaching propensities of authors in general, who are apt to stroll without a license into the manors of other men's genius.
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
319 U.S. 641
Judicial opinions, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
Context: We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.
April 2005, regarding Juan José Ibarretxe's plan to propose a referendum regarding whether to approve his plan to reform the aunomomy of the Basque Country.
As President, 2005
Source: El Correo, Saturday 9th April 2005, p. 23
2000, Warning to the Great Council of Chiefs, 9 March 2006