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These scoundrels not only openly wish defeat for Russia and the destruction of our homeland, but they are now executing their own compatriots. – Dmitry Medvedev	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am not afraid of anyone except the Almighty. Because it is important for me that by my action I can set an example for my compatriots, fellow security officials, enforcers. – Maria Dmitrieva	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People on both sides of Taiwan Straits are Chinese, so we are compatriots. So the last thing we should do is to fight with compatriots. And we will do our utmost in the greatest sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification, but ... that Taiwanese authority is working down the road towards independence, emboldened by the United States. So China will not commit to giving up the un-peaceful means for reunification because this is a deterrence. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	added by Normando 2 years ago
I say once again that South Korea isn’t the one that our military forces have to fight against, surely, we aren’t strengthening our defense capability because of South Korea. We shouldn’t repeat a horrible history of compatriots using force against each other. – Kim Jong	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Many years of sitting as the defendant, at the end of this long case, it is important for me to inform you and especially inform the Cambodian people that I have never wanted to commit a crime against my compatriots or against anyone else, no matter what you will decide, I will die in prison, I will die always remembering the suffering of my Cambodian people. – Khieu Samphan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
One of our compatriots was murdered today because he taught ... the freedom of expression, the freedom to believe or not believe. – Emmanuel Macron	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We did made a mistake. Some of our compatriots were martyred because of our mistake but it was unintentional, in my all lifetime I haven't been as sorry as much as now. Never. – Hossein Salami	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Cambodia's neighbors should not bow to Hun Sen's pressures, malaysia was right to release Mu Sochua and her two compatriots. But they should never have been detained in the first place. – Joanne Mariner	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I have heard with humility the voice of my compatriots. – Chilean President Sebastin Piera	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The allegedly fearful Roma threaten all of us, what I see are thousands of Hungarian compatriots living in fear of these criminals. – Our Homeland Chairman Laszlo Toroczkai	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Many of our compatriots have lost their lives, many more have been gravely injured, and billions of leones' worth of property [has been] destroyed in the flooding and landslides that swept across some parts of our city. – President Ernest Koroma	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The Polish government will never allow for anyone to impose their will on Poles, i am the prime minister of the Polish government, and my compatriots' opinion is and always will be supreme. I am a European, but above all I am a Pole. – Beata Szydlo	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The compatriots on both sides should unite and firmly oppose it. – Zhang Zhijun	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I understand the feeling of isolation and abandonment that some of out compatriots in the countryside feel. – French President Francois Hollande	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He was sensitive enough to realize what was happening around him, his own compatriots from India, my grandfather and others, were suffering at the hands of their employers and the entire government at that stage, which inspired him to resist evil wherever he saw it. – Mewa Ramgobin	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Their compatriots included such beasts as Wiwaxia, a slug covered in leaf-like scales and towering spines; Anomalocaris, resembling a cross between a lobster and a can-opener; Nectocaris, a boggle-eyed two-armed squid, and Opabinia, which looks like a shrimp that swallowed a vacuum cleaner. – Martin Smith	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We welcome Taiwan compatriots to participate in memorial activities, and hope people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait can always remember history, cherish the memory of martyrs and rally together through war victory activities. – Fan Liqing	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We hope that our compatriots on both sides of the strait will continue to strengthen mutual understanding and trust, deepen their bonds of kinship, bring hearts and minds together. – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
?Abubakar Shekau must surrender. We know where he is. If he doesn't give himself up he will suffer the same fate as his compatriots, he was in Dikwa two days ago. He managed to get away but we know where he is. It's in his interests to surrender. – President Idriss Deby of Chad	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It would be a major moral, political, human failure if the French Republic if we are not able to protect our Jewish compatriots, it's a major challenge but we'll do our best to face it. – Gerard Araud	Found on CNN 9 years ago
In doing what I did, I was not only trying to share the suffering of my compatriots, but also pay homage to the likes of Gandhi and Dr. King, who thought if suffering has to be endured for the social good, the activists should undergo it first. – Moustafa Mohamad	Found on CNN 9 years ago

These scoundrels not only openly wish defeat for Russia and the destruction of our homeland, but they are now executing their own compatriots.

– Dmitry Medvedev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am not afraid of anyone except the Almighty. Because it is important for me that by my action I can set an example for my compatriots, fellow security officials, enforcers.

– Maria Dmitrieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People on both sides of Taiwan Straits are Chinese, so we are compatriots. So the last thing we should do is to fight with compatriots. And we will do our utmost in the greatest sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification, but ... that Taiwanese authority is working down the road towards independence, emboldened by the United States. So China will not commit to giving up the un-peaceful means for reunification because this is a deterrence.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

added by Normando
2 years ago

I say once again that South Korea isn’t the one that our military forces have to fight against, surely, we aren’t strengthening our defense capability because of South Korea. We shouldn’t repeat a horrible history of compatriots using force against each other.

– Kim Jong

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Many years of sitting as the defendant, at the end of this long case, it is important for me to inform you and especially inform the Cambodian people that I have never wanted to commit a crime against my compatriots or against anyone else, no matter what you will decide, I will die in prison, I will die always remembering the suffering of my Cambodian people.

– Khieu Samphan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One of our compatriots was murdered today because he taught ... the freedom of expression, the freedom to believe or not believe.

– Emmanuel Macron

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We did made a mistake. Some of our compatriots were martyred because of our mistake but it was unintentional, in my all lifetime I haven't been as sorry as much as now. Never.

– Hossein Salami

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Cambodia's neighbors should not bow to Hun Sen's pressures, malaysia was right to release Mu Sochua and her two compatriots. But they should never have been detained in the first place.

– Joanne Mariner

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I have heard with humility the voice of my compatriots.

– Chilean President Sebastin Piera

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The allegedly fearful Roma threaten all of us, what I see are thousands of Hungarian compatriots living in fear of these criminals.

– Our Homeland Chairman Laszlo Toroczkai

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Many of our compatriots have lost their lives, many more have been gravely injured, and billions of leones' worth of property [has been] destroyed in the flooding and landslides that swept across some parts of our city.

– President Ernest Koroma

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The Polish government will never allow for anyone to impose their will on Poles, i am the prime minister of the Polish government, and my compatriots' opinion is and always will be supreme. I am a European, but above all I am a Pole.

– Beata Szydlo

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The compatriots on both sides should unite and firmly oppose it.

– Zhang Zhijun

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I understand the feeling of isolation and abandonment that some of out compatriots in the countryside feel.

– French President Francois Hollande

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He was sensitive enough to realize what was happening around him, his own compatriots from India, my grandfather and others, were suffering at the hands of their employers and the entire government at that stage, which inspired him to resist evil wherever he saw it.

– Mewa Ramgobin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Their compatriots included such beasts as Wiwaxia, a slug covered in leaf-like scales and towering spines; Anomalocaris, resembling a cross between a lobster and a can-opener; Nectocaris, a boggle-eyed two-armed squid, and Opabinia, which looks like a shrimp that swallowed a vacuum cleaner.

– Martin Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We welcome Taiwan compatriots to participate in memorial activities, and hope people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait can always remember history, cherish the memory of martyrs and rally together through war victory activities.

– Fan Liqing

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We hope that our compatriots on both sides of the strait will continue to strengthen mutual understanding and trust, deepen their bonds of kinship, bring hearts and minds together.

– Chinese Premier Li Keqiang

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

?Abubakar Shekau must surrender. We know where he is. If he doesn't give himself up he will suffer the same fate as his compatriots, he was in Dikwa two days ago. He managed to get away but we know where he is. It's in his interests to surrender.

– President Idriss Deby of Chad

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It would be a major moral, political, human failure if the French Republic if we are not able to protect our Jewish compatriots, it's a major challenge but we'll do our best to face it.

– Gerard Araud

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In doing what I did, I was not only trying to share the suffering of my compatriots, but also pay homage to the likes of Gandhi and Dr. King, who thought if suffering has to be endured for the social good, the activists should undergo it first.

– Moustafa Mohamad

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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