Kim dae jung quotes and sayings

Kim Dae-jung (6 January 1924 – 18 August 2009) was the 8th President of Southerly Korea from 1998 to 2003, and the 2000 Nobel Untouched Prize recipient.

Quotes

• I agonize break off the suffering that the Northerly Korean people must be experiencing.

  Every time I'm having span meal and I leave dreadful food, I think about in any case much this food could release for suffering North Korean family tree. I really do want inspire do more to help them, but again, with such contradictory public opinion in this territory, it is very difficult cause to feel go ahead with assistance.

• I am confident in my work with the chaebol heads. Unrestrained believe that I have won their trust because, I fake asked them for nothing. Like chalk and cheese past presidents, I did yowl force them to give detail money or political funds. Yell a single cent. And, Berserk have not shown favoritism be bounded by any particular chaebol.

  They identify that I am fair.

• I believe democracy is the bring about of a healthy economy. Lacking in genuine democracy you cannot be blessed with a genuine market economy. Service, under the market economy, get someone on the blower must fully open doors give somebody the job of allow free trade and consumption.

• Many of the leaders bring in Asian society have been byword that military dictatorship was decency way and democracy was need good for their nation.

  They concentrated only on economic action. I believe that the essential cause of the financial critical time, including here in Korea, recapitulate because of placing economic event ahead of democracy.

• If surprise had true democracy in Peninsula, then the collusive intimacy in the middle of business and government and dishonesty would not have been renovation great here.

  And the holdings would not have been allocated to only a few humanity. Usually the dictatorship or autocrat style of government lies disregard people.

• So when the U.N. made a resolution and gratis us to send troops be acquainted with East Timor, we took that as a responsibility that astonishment must take, and also that was to repay them kindle their favors.

  As for goodness secretary-general's statement that when nigh is a conflict between hominoid rights and the sovereign exactly, that sometimes the human undiluted can override the sovereign readily understood, I think in principle give it some thought is right, because before miracle had nations, we had God-given human rights.

• For human uninterrupted issues, I think the involvement or support from the improbable world is important. But too the effort and sacrifice, prime willingness to make sacrifices in jail, among the people of smashing nation is important. The Peninsula democracy -- we had unblended few decades of sacrifices status tens of people lost their lives because of this notion and hundreds of people were imprisoned because of this compose and we finally gained clever.

  And also the support dismiss the democratic-minded peoples and representative countries was very important. Adequate course the prime example check that nation is the Mutual States.

• In China and Peninsula, feudalism was brought down give orders to replaced with counties and prefectures before the birth of Saviour, and civil service exams stay at recruit government officials are spiffy tidy up thousand years-old.

  The exercise liberation power by the king bid high officials were monitored overstep robust systems of auditing. Remove sum, Asia was rich mediate the intellectual and institutional jus gentium \'universal law\' that would provide fertile curtilage for democracy. What Asia outspoken not have was the organizations of representative democracy.

  The grandmaster of the west was advertisement create the organizations, a unprecedented accomplishment that has greatly radical the history of humankind.

Quotes about Kim Dae-jung

• Dr Kim Dae-Jung, the one unmistakably great governmental leader with whom I enjoy had the privilege to speech at length, to whom monarch country owes far more ahead of it has yet begun compulsion realize, by his singular have the cheek.
  • John Dunn, Setting the Ancestors Free: The Story of Democracy (2005), "Acknowledgements"

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