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What I said was ill-thought-out, and I make no defence for it, but I will clarify that the term used is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for ‘guy’ or ‘person’ and was never intended to offend. – Nelson Piquet	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He grew up in Europe, and he's lived all over the continent, and he's fluent in French, Russian and Italian. He reads Spanish and Portuguese. And he can get by and understand Polish and Ukrainian, which enables him to communicate directly with about half the population of Europe. – Mark Milley	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We've seen plenty of jellyfish like The Portuguese man-of-war, but never this animal. – San Antonio	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don't think that these football players plan to spend the rest of their life in China, if Wolfgang Georg Arlt earn $ 25 million playing football for three years in China, then maybe Wolfgang Georg Arlt'll be happy to say goodbye to a million to get a Canadian or Portuguese passport. – Wolfgang Georg Arlt	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I believe that the Portuguese market will be one of the first globally to be able to use this (5G) technology. – Alexandre Fonseca	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I hope this year things are different. I am certain that 100 percent of the Portuguese believe that Portugal will win and that is what we want to believe, that is what we want to dream. – Joao Mario	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I'm certain that the whole group will think of it as the game of their lives because Portugal have never won a title, we can go down in Portuguese history. There is nothing like playing in a competition like this for our country. – Joao Mario	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The Namibian government – every single coin, that is the normal procedure when a ship is found on a beach. The only exception is when it is a ship of state – then the country under whose flag the ship was sailing gets it and all its contents. And in this case the ship belonged to the King of Portugal, making it a ship of state – with the ship and its entire contents belonging to Portugal. The Portuguese government, however, very generously waived that right, allowing Namibia to keep the lot. – Captain Cook	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
But the Social Democrats who assumed these responsibilities for the Portuguese state, and who have always supported them, now refuse to approve them ... That is absolutely irresponsible. – Prime Minister Antonio Costa	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They (the opposition) will say, ah, but the other parties could have a different stance. They could. But they are consistent with what they've always been saying and they'd have to change their position, but the Social Democrats who assumed these responsibilities for the Portuguese state, and who have always supported them, now refuse to approve them ... That is absolutely irresponsible. – Prime Minister Antonio Costa	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Portuguese people's stance at the election was one of rejection of the policies of the center-right, the Portuguese have already been punished. This idea of an alternative is creating hope. – Carlos Carreiras	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The choice we have is clear: between the path of reforms that is gradual and secure, and the path of unrealistic political programs following immediate goals, i will not collaborate and will oppose any negative policy leading to Portugal's ruin, where the Portuguese are seen as mere instruments of political power games. – Pedro Passos Coelho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I will not collaborate and will oppose any negative policy leading to Portugal's ruin, where the Portuguese are seen as mere instruments of political power games. – Pedro Passos Coelho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Never has a Portuguese government depended on the support of anti-European political forces. – Cavaco Silva	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Portuguese had no titles when they came to Brazil, brazil was born without titles. – Zezito Oliveira	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is important that this agreement is fleshed out before the government program debate in parliament because our commitment is that we'll only contribute to ousting the government if we simultaneously bring a responsible alternative, a durable solution that gives Portuguese calm and confidence, if there is no deal ... we will not leave the country without a government. – Carlos Cesar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When the Portuguese first arrived they said the development of architecture here was equal to that found in the Mediterranean world, but the Africanness of the mosque and buildings at Kilwa Kiliwani can be identified by the the local material the local technologies used. – Felix Chami	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Nobody can count on the Socialists to support policies that go against the Socialists, there was a large majority of Portuguese who voted for change. – Passos Coelho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What is happening in Europe is that responsible governments cannot go promising to people what the reality won't allow them to implement, when they come to power the reality is that they have to confront problems and have to do exactly what the Portuguese government has done. – Passos Coelho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think the Portuguese will have very good sense in who The Socialists choose on Oct. 4 and The Socialists will avoid any kind of risk of returning to the causes and consequences of what happened in 2011, no society goes through what the Portuguese went through without learning its due lessons and consequences. The Socialists had a serious budget deficit and debt problem in 2011. – Deputy Prime Minister Paulo Portas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is increasingly likely that the election result won't produce a stable government and that naturally raises Portugal's political risk, which has in no way been discounted in Portuguese asset prices. – Filipe Garcia	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That is, transforming TAP into a mini TAP, which is not in the interests of workers, the economy nor the Portuguese. – Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If the privatisation does not succeed, today we know what the alternative is: a restructuring which can only be based on big lay-offs, route reductions, reduction of equipment and thereby a reduction of the operation and significance of the company, that is, transforming TAP into a mini TAP, which is not in the interests of workers, the economy nor the Portuguese. – Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I got bullied quite a lot growing up, my dad's Pakistani and my mum's Portuguese, i got stick from both sides, from white and black people. I felt like I wasn't accepted. I used to move schools so many times just to feel accepted. – Ambreen Sadiq	Found on CNN 9 years ago

What I said was ill-thought-out, and I make no defence for it, but I will clarify that the term used is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for ‘guy’ or ‘person’ and was never intended to offend.

– Nelson Piquet

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He grew up in Europe, and he's lived all over the continent, and he's fluent in French, Russian and Italian. He reads Spanish and Portuguese. And he can get by and understand Polish and Ukrainian, which enables him to communicate directly with about half the population of Europe.

– Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We've seen plenty of jellyfish like The Portuguese man-of-war, but never this animal.

– San Antonio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don't think that these football players plan to spend the rest of their life in China, if Wolfgang Georg Arlt earn $ 25 million playing football for three years in China, then maybe Wolfgang Georg Arlt'll be happy to say goodbye to a million to get a Canadian or Portuguese passport.

– Wolfgang Georg Arlt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I believe that the Portuguese market will be one of the first globally to be able to use this (5G) technology.

– Alexandre Fonseca

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I hope this year things are different. I am certain that 100 percent of the Portuguese believe that Portugal will win and that is what we want to believe, that is what we want to dream.

– Joao Mario

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I'm certain that the whole group will think of it as the game of their lives because Portugal have never won a title, we can go down in Portuguese history. There is nothing like playing in a competition like this for our country.

– Joao Mario

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The Namibian government – every single coin, that is the normal procedure when a ship is found on a beach. The only exception is when it is a ship of state – then the country under whose flag the ship was sailing gets it and all its contents. And in this case the ship belonged to the King of Portugal, making it a ship of state – with the ship and its entire contents belonging to Portugal. The Portuguese government, however, very generously waived that right, allowing Namibia to keep the lot.

– Captain Cook

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

But the Social Democrats who assumed these responsibilities for the Portuguese state, and who have always supported them, now refuse to approve them ... That is absolutely irresponsible.

– Prime Minister Antonio Costa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They (the opposition) will say, ah, but the other parties could have a different stance. They could. But they are consistent with what they've always been saying and they'd have to change their position, but the Social Democrats who assumed these responsibilities for the Portuguese state, and who have always supported them, now refuse to approve them ... That is absolutely irresponsible.

– Prime Minister Antonio Costa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Portuguese people's stance at the election was one of rejection of the policies of the center-right, the Portuguese have already been punished. This idea of an alternative is creating hope.

– Carlos Carreiras

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The choice we have is clear: between the path of reforms that is gradual and secure, and the path of unrealistic political programs following immediate goals, i will not collaborate and will oppose any negative policy leading to Portugal's ruin, where the Portuguese are seen as mere instruments of political power games.

– Pedro Passos Coelho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I will not collaborate and will oppose any negative policy leading to Portugal's ruin, where the Portuguese are seen as mere instruments of political power games.

– Pedro Passos Coelho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Never has a Portuguese government depended on the support of anti-European political forces.

– Cavaco Silva

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Portuguese had no titles when they came to Brazil, brazil was born without titles.

– Zezito Oliveira

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is important that this agreement is fleshed out before the government program debate in parliament because our commitment is that we'll only contribute to ousting the government if we simultaneously bring a responsible alternative, a durable solution that gives Portuguese calm and confidence, if there is no deal ... we will not leave the country without a government.

– Carlos Cesar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When the Portuguese first arrived they said the development of architecture here was equal to that found in the Mediterranean world, but the Africanness of the mosque and buildings at Kilwa Kiliwani can be identified by the the local material the local technologies used.

– Felix Chami

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Nobody can count on the Socialists to support policies that go against the Socialists, there was a large majority of Portuguese who voted for change.

– Passos Coelho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What is happening in Europe is that responsible governments cannot go promising to people what the reality won't allow them to implement, when they come to power the reality is that they have to confront problems and have to do exactly what the Portuguese government has done.

– Passos Coelho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think the Portuguese will have very good sense in who The Socialists choose on Oct. 4 and The Socialists will avoid any kind of risk of returning to the causes and consequences of what happened in 2011, no society goes through what the Portuguese went through without learning its due lessons and consequences. The Socialists had a serious budget deficit and debt problem in 2011.

– Deputy Prime Minister Paulo Portas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is increasingly likely that the election result won't produce a stable government and that naturally raises Portugal's political risk, which has in no way been discounted in Portuguese asset prices.

– Filipe Garcia

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That is, transforming TAP into a mini TAP, which is not in the interests of workers, the economy nor the Portuguese.

– Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If the privatisation does not succeed, today we know what the alternative is: a restructuring which can only be based on big lay-offs, route reductions, reduction of equipment and thereby a reduction of the operation and significance of the company, that is, transforming TAP into a mini TAP, which is not in the interests of workers, the economy nor the Portuguese.

– Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I got bullied quite a lot growing up, my dad's Pakistani and my mum's Portuguese, i got stick from both sides, from white and black people. I felt like I wasn't accepted. I used to move schools so many times just to feel accepted.

– Ambreen Sadiq

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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