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.

  • 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 ■■■□□
  • I was a military man for twenty-seven years. I fought as long as there were no prospects for peace. I believe that there is now a chance for peace, a great chance, and it must be seized.
    IL flag Yitzhak Rabin · 1995 Address at a mass peace rally in Tel Aviv's Kings of Israel Square on 4 November 1995, in defense of the Oslo process. Sources: en.wikiquote.org Tier 3 — English secondary ■■□□□
  • Enough of blood and tears. Enough.
    די לדם ולדמעות. די!
    IL flag Yitzhak Rabin · 1993 September 13 1993 White House Rose Garden remarks at the Oslo Accords signing — addressed simultaneously to Palestinians and to the Israeli public watching live. Sources: nytimes.com · en.wikipedia.org · en.wikiquote.org Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□
  • The great showdown has begun. The mother of all battles is upon us.
    لقد بدأت المواجهة الكبرى. أمّ المعارك قد قدمت.
    IQ flag Saddam Hussein · 1991 January 17 1991 broadcast hours after the start of Coalition air operations against Iraq following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait — the phrase that became shorthand for the Gulf War. Sources: nytimes.com · en.wikipedia.org · britannica.com Tier 1 — direct MENA-language primary ■■□□□

The verification bar for inclusion is the same one the Who-said-it game uses: only rows with verification_status other than unverified show up here — each quote carries at least one source citation and a review pass before it appears.