Kenan Evren quotes

“All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.”
-- Kenan Evren

Source : "Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change". Book by Meliha Altunisik and Özlem Tür, 2005.

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“All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals?”
-- Kenan Evren

Source : "TURKEY: An Uneasy Honeymoon" by William E. Smith, content.time.com. September 29, 1980.

#Believe Quotes #Rights Quotes #People Quotes

“Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time.”
-- Kenan Evren

Source : "TURKEY: Strong Army Medicine". content.time.com. December 08, 1980.

#Axes Quotes #Worry Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.”

Source : Abbott Joseph Liebling (1970). “The Earl of Louisiana”, p.19, LSU Press

“The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it.”

“No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.”

“Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.”

“When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.”

“People hate politicians. And I can understand why.”

“Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.”

“No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.”

“The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.”