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Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Above
Children
Conflicts
Create
Horizons
New
Owe
Stop
Them
World
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Concept
Many
Separate
States
Supported
Years
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Believe
First
First Impressions
I Believe
I Believe That
Important
Impressions
Very
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I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Action
Been
February
Felt
Frame
Fulfilled
Fulfillment
Had
Implemented
Laid
Plan
Properly
Sense
Table
Time
Time Frame
Which
Within
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I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
~ F. W. de Klerk
About
Apartheid
Apology
Commission
Front
Injustices
Made
Most
Occasions
Other
Profound
Truth
Were
Which
Wrought
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I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Abandon
Accept
Africa
Apartheid
Book
Discrimination
Equal
Equal Rights
Forms
Integral
Integral Part
Must
New
Part
Played
Rights
South
South Africa
United
Vision
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Ask
Conditions
Constantly
Create
Our
Ourselves
Peace
Prosper
Quest
Should
Which
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Able
Adoption
April
Been
Constitution
Democratic
Elections
First
Honour
Led
Mandela
Me
Mr
Our
Process
Work
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It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Africa
Back
Between
Big
Developed
Entire
Even
Fortunate
Found
From Time To Time
Looking
Looking Back
Mandela
People
Possible
South
South Africa
Strains
Though
Time
Together
Us
Work
Work Together
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Achieved
Cabinet
Circle
Decisions
Did
Discussions
Evolve
Had
Inner
Like
Our
Out
Policies
Preferred
Real
Way
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Any
Hands-On
Mandela
President
Time
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The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Accepted
Constitution
Court
Effect
From Time To Time
Legislation
Party
Time
Undermining
Values
Which
Would
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The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Africa
After
April
Been
Budget
Came
Convinced
Decades
Drafted
Elections
Finance
Force
Going
Government
Had
He
Keys
Minister
Necessity
Need
Our
Power
Principles
South
South Africa
Stay
Them
Within
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The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
~ F. W. de Klerk
Aggression
Ask
Caught
Forever
Goal
History
Making
Mindless
Must
Peace
Progress
Question
Self-Destruction
Toward
Treadmill
Turning
Universal
Up
Whether
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The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Based
Beginning
Between
Mandela
Me
Meetings
President
Relationship
Right
Two
Very
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What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
~ F. W. de Klerk
African
Bring
Concept
Justice
Nation
Original
Seeking
South
States
Through
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Admiration
Anything
Did
Discuss
Each
Expressing
Felt
First
Generals
He
His
How
Ingenious
Just
Long
Long Time
Mandela
Met
Other
Out
Spent
Substance
Time
War
Were
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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
~ F. W. de Klerk
About
Apartheid
Claim
End
Ended
Honor
Prefer
Talk
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
~ F. W. de Klerk
Almost
Cannot
Democracy
Dynamic
Healthy
Party
Say
Two-Thirds
Vote
Wins
You
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