corpus · 101 on file

Quotes

Every verified statement attributed to a politician or party in the dataset. Each carries a year, the context, and at least one source citation. The same corpus drives the Who-said-it game and the "On the record" sections on entity pages.

  • No solution to the Yemeni crisis is acceptable, regardless of its conditions, if it does not provide for the prosecution of Ali Abdullah Saleh and his aides.
    لا يُقبَل أيّ حلّ للأزمة اليمنيّة، مهما كانت شروطه، ما لم يضمن محاكمة عليّ عبدالله صالح ومعاونيه.
    YE flag Tawakkol Karman · 2011 Tawakkol Karman in her Nobel Peace Lecture, Oslo — refusing the GCC initiative's immunity-from-prosecution clause for Saleh. Sources: nobelprize.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■■□
  • Ruling Yemen is hard. It is dancing on the heads of snakes.
    حكم اليمن صعب. إنه رقص على رؤوس الثعابين.
    YE flag Ali Abdullah Saleh · 1999 Repeated framing in interviews and memoir across the late 1990s and 2000s — the line that became the definitive autobiographical summary of governing the country. Sources: en.wikipedia.org · britannica.com Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■■□□

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