Last Ipse by Chronological Order

Ukrainian artillery gun commander

02 May 2024 (approx) 2 3

Abdallah al-Dardari

Inserted 6 hours ago

“The United Nations Development Programme's initial estimates for the reconstruction of … the Gaza Strip surpasses $30bn and could reach up to $40bn. The scale of the destruction is huge and unprecedented … this is a mission that the global community has not dealt with since World War II.”

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UN assistant secretary-general

02 May 2024 6 2

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 6 hours ago

“I am following the situation in Georgia with great concern and condemn the violence on the streets of Tbilisi. The European Union has also clearly expressed its concerns regarding the law on foreign influence. The Georgian people want a European future for their country.”

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President of the European Commission

01 May 2024 4 3

Karine Jean-Pierre

Inserted 21 hours ago

“Americans have the right to peacefully protest. Forcibly taking over a building is not peaceful.”

White House spokeswoman

01 May 2024 2 1

Janet Yellen

Inserted 21 hours ago

“Treasury has consistently warned that companies will face significant consequences for providing material support for Russia's war, and the U.S. is imposing them today on almost 300 targets.”

United States Secretary of the Treasury

01 May 2024 2 3

Catherine Russell

Inserted 21 hours ago

“Over 200 days of war have already killed or maimed tens of thousands of children in Gaza. For hundreds of thousands of children in the border city of Rafah, there is added fear of an escalated military operation that would bring catastrophe on top of catastrophe for children. Nearly all of the some 600,000 children now crammed into Rafah are either injured, sick, malnourished, traumatised or living with disabilities.”

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UNICEF Executive Director

01 May 2024 8 3

Eric Adams

Inserted 1 day ago

“We cannot allow what should be a lawful protest to turn into a violent spectacle that saves and serves no purpose. There's no place for acts of hate in our city. I want to continue to commend the professionalism of the police department and to thank Columbia University. It was a tough decision, we understood that. But with the very clear evidence of their observation and the clear evidence from our intelligence division, that they understood it was time to move and the action had to end and we brought it to a peaceful conclusion.”

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New York City mayor

01 May 2024 2 1

Sergei Shoigu

Inserted 1 day ago

“To maintain the required pace of the offensive … it is necessary to increase the volume and quality of weapons and military equipment supplied to the troops, primarily weapons.”

Russian Defence Minister

01 May 2024 3 3

Chandrachur Singh

Inserted 2 days ago

“The opposition - a consortium of nearly two dozen parties - has not been able to rally people around economic distress despite raising it as a prominent election issue. The problem with the opposition is that it is a coming together of parties with divergent views whose only agenda seems to be to dislodge Modi. To the people, that doesn't seem to be a good enough agenda. The fact that the opposition has not projected a face against Modi is also an issue. Rahul Gandhi is slowly emerging as that leader, but in terms of perception, he is still far behind Modi.”

Professor of political science at Delhi University

30 Apr 2024 3 2

Neelanjan Sircar

Inserted 2 days ago

“A large part of what the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] does is thinking about how to centralise all political attribution on Modi. Its campaign promises are pitched as Modi's guarantees. This is the strategy of a party where the leader is a cult figure and the party is the vehicle for the leader. Whether it's economic distress or even issues like violence in Manipur, Modi is not directly sullied. People may blame other leaders of the BJP. In regional elections, as a consequence, BJP might be voted out. But it is not anger against Modi.”

Senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi

30 Apr 2024 5 3

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 2 days ago

“The idea that we will stop the war before achieving all its objectives is out of the question. We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate the Hamas battalions there - with or without a deal, in order to achieve the total victory.”

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Prime Minister of Israel

30 Apr 2024 3 2

Nour Odeh

Inserted 2 days ago

“For a while, there was a lot of cautious optimism up until this morning, and then the prime minister announced he will order an invasion of Rafah with or without a deal - in essence trampling all of these ceasefire talks. This is what the families of the captives had feared. This is what the negotiators feared. Netanyahu's comments came after he held meetings with the most right-wing members of his coalition government, including Itamar Ben-Gvir. It's interesting, every time Blinken comes to the region - catching the tailwind of some optimism - something like this happens, and he ends up going home with nothing to show for all this political momentum.”

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Palestinian political analyst based in Ramallah

30 Apr 2024 6 2

Randall Kuhn

Inserted 2 days ago

“Put simply, the situation in Gaza is it's completely intolerable at this point. We're on the border of famine and for us as a university, we have to reckon with the fact that every university in Gaza has been destroyed. As a professor, I find it repugnant to sit by while Palestinian professors are being killed, while academic buildings are being bombed relentlessly.”

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Professor of public health at University of California

30 Apr 2024 5 2

Margus Tsahkna

Inserted 3 days ago

“This is a hybrid attack. If we look at the very different spheres of life in which Russia interferes in our lives on our territory. Whether it is deliberate attacks through the special services on our public assets, on our monuments. Whether it is cyberattacks, or whether it is completely deliberate action in terms of jamming the GPS signal. Russia knows very well that the interference they are causing is very dangerous for our air traffic and, specifically, is also in breach of international conventions to which Russia is a party. So, this is a deliberate action that is disrupting our lives, putting people's lives at risk.”

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia

29 Apr 2024 5 2

Osama Hamdan

Inserted 3 days ago

“It's clear from the Israeli paper that they are still insisting on two major issues. They don't want a complete ceasefire and they are not talking, in a serious way, about the withdrawal from Gaza. In fact, they are still talking about their presence … which means that they will keep continuing [occupying] Gaza. We have serious questions for the mediators. If there [are] positive answers, I think we can move forward. Stopping the attacks against Palestinians is not generous [Blinken claimed that the Israeli proposal was an 'extraordinarily generous' offer]. The attack itself is a crime, so when you stop a crime, you can't claim that it's a generous action from the Israeli side.”

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Senior Hamas spokesperson

29 Apr 2024 5 1

Tim Wu

Inserted 3 days ago

“ByteDance, for its part, maintains that it is not actually subject to control by the Chinese government. The weight of the evidence suggests otherwise: The Chinese state owns a “golden share” in the company, the firm is based in China, and studies suggest that the government shapes TikTok content in accordance with party preferences. ByteDance has said it has no plans to sell TikTok; but that might merely be a means of driving up the price. What the company now has is a golden opportunity to prove its independence for once and for all: by selling TikTok and taking the money.”

Law professor at Columbia

29 Apr 2024 4 1

Jens Stoltenberg

Inserted 3 days ago

“For months the U.S. was unable to agree a package and European allies have been unable to deliver ammunition at the scale we promised. Ukraine has been outgunned for months and forced to ration its ammunition.... More support is on the way.”

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Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

29 Apr 2024 5 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 3 days ago

“Timely support for our army. Today I don't see anything positive on this point yet. There are supplies, they have slowly begun, but this process needs to be sped up. Promptness in supply literally means a stabilization of the front line.... Together we must disrupt the Russian offensive.”

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President of Ukraine

29 Apr 2024 3 3

Natasa Pirc Musar

Inserted 3 days ago

“I am supporting him [Borut Pahor]. Pahor would be a good candidate. His political experience of 17 years in the highest positions in my republic shows he is capable of holding such a position. Slovenia is an ideal candidate for that [role, EU special envoy for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue], knowing the region, we know the mentality, the culture, because of the roots from the past and I can assure you that Slovenia never has a hidden agenda. That is our added value.”

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President of Slovenia

29 Apr 2024 3 3

Ting-yu Wang

Inserted 3 days ago

“A visit to China by a group of 17 Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers is doing nothing regarding China's continuing military intimidation against Taiwan. The KMT members have become tools for Beijing's united front propaganda campaign. Beijing is manipulating Taiwan's parliament by using democracy to kill democracy. It is regretful that the 17 KMT lawmakers now in China are afraid to speak up for Taiwan, as we still face constant military threats from China and intimidatory gray zone tactics. We cannot see how the KMT's 'trip to promote peace and friendship' has achieved anything. Instead they are acting like sycophants by pandering to Chinese officials.”

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Taiwanese lawmaker from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)

28 Apr 2024 (approx) 3 4

Yair Lapid

Inserted 4 days ago

“This government has to choose: return the abductees alive, or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, relations with the Americans or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, the Saudi deal or Ben Gvir and Smotrich, Israel's security or Ben Gvir and Smotrich.”

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Israeli politician and former prime minister

28 Apr 2024 5 6

Dmitry Peskov

Inserted 4 days ago

“On the Ukrainian side, the panic is growing on the frontline. And this is first-hand information that there, on that side, the panic is growing. It is very important for us now to maintain this dynamics. It is very important not to stop and continue fulfilling [the tasks of the special military operation].”

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Kremlin spokesman

28 Apr 2024 2 3

Oleksandr Syrskyi

Inserted 4 days ago

“In general, the enemy achieved certain tactical successes in these areas [villages of Berdychi and Semenivka, north of Avdiivka, and Novomykhailivka, near the town of Maryinka], but could not gain operational advantages.”

Ukraine’s commander of ground forces

28 Apr 2024 5 3

Rina Shah

Inserted 4 days ago

“Protests in US universities are a display of democracy in action, a welcome sight in an election year marked by concerns of voter apathy chiefly due to Israel's war on Gaza. So when I see a movement like this of students taking peaceful, non-violent action and expressing their concern about the US government backing of Israel, of where our tax money is going, I think that's extremely healthy. These students are out there concerned about America's role in backing Benjamin Netanyahu. On the one hand, we are supplying weapons and funds to do what he wants to do in Gaza, while on the other we are sending humanitarian aid to Gaza. This is the hypocrisy these students are concerned about.”

Washington-based political strategist and former senior congressional aide

27 Apr 2024 9 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 5 days ago

“Of course, I'm grateful to all of our partners who have helped us with air defence: each air defence system and each air defence missile is literally saving lives. It's important that everything works out as quickly as possible: every new agreement with our partners to strengthen our air defence, every initiative from Ukraine's friends to help us, particularly with finding and supplying Patriot [anti-aircraft missile systems]. Ukraine needs at least seven [Patriot] systems. Our partners have these Patriots. Russian terrorists can see that unfortunately our partners aren't as determined to protect Europe from terror as they are to do so in the Middle East. But [our partners] can give us the air defence systems that we need. We mustn't waste time: we need to signal determination.”

President of Ukraine

27 Apr 2024 7 2

Thomas Friedman

Inserted 4 days ago

“But revenge is not a strategy. It is pure insanity that Israel is now more than six months into this war and the Israeli military leadership - and virtually the entire political class - has allowed Netanyahu to continue to pursue a 'total victory' there, including probably soon plunging deep into Rafah, without any exit plan or Arab partner lined up to step in once the war ends. If Israel ends up with an indefinite occupation of both Gaza and the West Bank, it would be a toxic military, economic and moral overstretch that would delight Israel's most dangerous foe, Iran, and repel all its allies in the West and the Arab world.”

New York Times foreign affairs Opinion columnist

26 Apr 2024 10 2

Antony Blinken

Inserted 5 days ago

“I saw that Huawei just put out a new laptop that it boasted was AI capable, that uses an Intel chip. I think it demonstrates that what we're focused on is only the most sensitive technology that could pose a threat to our security. We're not focused on cutting off trade, or for that matter containing or holding back China.”

U.S. Secretary of State

26 Apr 2024 5 4

Xi Jinping

Inserted 6 days ago

“I proposed mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation to be the three overarching principles. They are both lessons learned from the past and a guide for the future.”

President of the People's Republic of China

26 Apr 2024 3 2

Xie Tao

Inserted 6 days ago

“China knows that it likely has little room to sway the United States on trade. The Chinese government seems to be putting its focus on people-to-people exchanges. The Chinese government is really investing a lot of energy in shaping the future generation of Americans' view of China.”

Dean of the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University

26 Apr 2024 4 2

Yi Wang

Inserted 6 days ago

“The United States has adopted an endless stream of measures to suppress China's economy, trade, science and technology. This is not fair competition but containment, and is not removing risks but creating risks.”

State Councillor and China's foreign minister

26 Apr 2024 3 5

Antony Blinken

Inserted 6 days ago

“China alone is producing more than 100 percent of global demand for products like solar panels and electric vehicles, and was responsible for one-third of global production but only one-tenth of global demand. This is a movie that we've seen before, and we know how it ends. With American businesses shuttered and American jobs lost.”

U.S. Secretary of State

26 Apr 2024 7 6

Antony Blinken

Inserted 6 days ago

“Russia would struggle to sustain its assault on Ukraine without China's support. I made clear that if China does not address this problem, we will.”

U.S. Secretary of State

26 Apr 2024 3 4

Chen Jining

Inserted 6 days ago

“Whether China and the U.S. choose cooperation or confrontation, it affects the well-being of both peoples, of both nations, and also the future of humanity.”

Communist Party chief in Shanghai

25 Apr 2024 5 3

Bernie Sanders

Inserted 6 days ago

“No, Mr Netanyahu. It is not anti-Semitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 - 70 percent of whom are women and children.”

Vermont Senator

25 Apr 2024 6 2

Yi Wang

Inserted 1 week ago

“No conflict or war ends on the battlefield, but rather at the negotiating table. China supports the convening at an appropriate time of an international peace conference that is acceptable to the Russian and Ukrainian sides with the participation of all parties equally. There, peace plans can be discussed, fairly, to achieve a ceasefire as soon as possible. We must always insist on an objective and just position, there is no magic wand to solve the crisis. All parties should start with themselves.”

State Councillor and China's foreign minister

25 Apr 2024 8 1

Boris Pistorius

Inserted 1 week ago

“Russia is already producing weapons and ammunition beyond its need for conducting an aggressive war against Ukraine. With increased spending on armaments and the streamlining of the military economy, a significant portion or part of what is produced no longer goes to the front line, but ends up in warehouses. Now you can be naive and say he's doing it just out of caution. As a sceptical person, I would say in this case that he's doing it because he has plans or could have them.”

Minister of Defence of Germany

25 Apr 2024 6 3

Emmanuel Macron

Inserted 1 week ago

“There is a risk our Europe could die. We are not equipped to face the risks. Russia must not be allowed to win in Ukraine. Europeans should give preference to buying European military equipment. We must produce more, we must produce faster, and we must produce as Europeans.”

President of France

25 Apr 2024 6 2

Aleksey Kushch

Inserted 1 week ago

“By including the Ukraine package in a bill that also provides military aid to Israel and Taiwan, the US shows the world that it equals Ukraine's and Israel's archenemies - Russia and Iran. This is a mighty geopolitical slap for China. As the trade turnover between Russia and China rose to $240bn last year, the more the US pushes Beijing, the more discounts for oil and gas China gets from Russia.”

Kyiv-based analyst

25 Apr 2024 9 6

Nikolay Mitrokhin

Inserted 1 week ago

“The aid is a surprisingly exact match of Ukrainian military's needs that mostly has a deficit of air defence weaponry of all kinds and also needs to replenish its arsenal of tank destroyers, anti-infantry landmines and other kinds of ammunition. It's obviously needed to deliver infantry and other ground troops to the front line but not for an advance - otherwise the US would have given tanks.”

Research Fellow at Bremen University

25 Apr 2024 6 5

Ihor Romanenko

Inserted 1 week ago

“The aid can improve the situation on the 1,000km-long (620-mile-long) front line. But the aid looks like a handout to show that we haven't been forgotten, no more than that. They're always late, they hit the brakes, they're afraid. All of that is done to catch up [with Russia], but wars are won by those who act ahead of time.”

Lieutenant General - Former deputy chief of Ukraine’s general staff of armed forces

25 Apr 2024 4 3

Amichai Chikli

Inserted 1 week ago

“The US is not projecting strength under [Biden's] leadership, and it's harming Israel and other countries. He said 'Don't' at the start of the war - to Hezbollah, as well as Iran. We saw the result. If I were an American citizen with the right to vote, I'd vote for Trump and Republicans.”

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Minister of Diaspora Affairs of Israel

24 Apr 2024 8 2

Nikolay Mitrokhin

Inserted 1 week ago

“The return of Crimea is absolutely unrealistic. Before the failure of Ukraine's counteroffensive last summer there was a chance to return the annexed peninsula had Ukrainian forces reached the Azov Sea and started shelling the Crimean bridge and the Kerch Strait that divides the Azov and Black seas. But now it's hardly real to penetrate Russian defence farther than the takeover of the Kinburn peninsula.”

Research Fellow at Bremen University

24 Apr 2024 9 4

Connor Fiddler

Inserted 6 days ago

“Nearly half of the Indo-Pacific appropriations directly reinforce the submarine industrial base. While this investment will enhance deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, the immediate impact will be supporting the American economy.”

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Associate Deputy Director for the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute

23 Apr 2024 5 3

Abu Obeida

Inserted 1 week ago

“The enemy has achieved nothing except carrying out death and destruction in its 200 days of war on Gaza. Israel is still trying to recover and restore its image. The enemy is in a quagmire, stuck in the sands of Gaza. It will reap nothing but shame and defeat. Two hundreds days on and our resistance in Gaza is as solid as the mountains of Palestine. We will continue our strikes and resistance as long as the occupation's aggression continues on our land. The occupation forces are trying to convince the world that they have eliminated all resistance factions, and this is a big lie.”

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Spokesman for the Qassam Brigades

23 Apr 2024 6 1

Rishi Sunak

Inserted 1 week ago

“We will put the UK's own defence industry on a war footing. One of the central lessons of the war in Ukraine is that we need deeper stockpiles of munitions and for industry to be able to replenish them more quickly.”

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UK Prime Minister

23 Apr 2024 4 2

Wang Wenbin

Inserted 1 week ago

“The United States has unveiled a large-scale aid bill for Ukraine while also making groundless accusations against normal trade between China and Russia. This kind of approach is extremely hypocritical and utterly irresponsible, and China is firmly opposed to it.”

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Spokesperson of China and deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department of China

23 Apr 2024 3 4

Sergei Shoigu

Inserted 1 week ago

“In proportion to the threats posed by the United States and its allies, we will continue to improve the composition and structure of the armed forces and increase the production of the most popular weapons and military equipment. We will increase the intensity of attacks on logistics centres and storage bases for Western weapons.”

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Russian Defence Minister

23 Apr 2024 5 3

Kyrylo Budanov

Inserted 1 week ago

“According to our assessment, we are anticipating a rather difficult situation shortly. However, it is not catastrophic, and this must be understood. Armageddon will not happen, despite what many are starting to claim. But we anticipate problems from mid-May. The Russians will adopt a multifaceted approach. They are orchestrating a complex operation... It will be a difficult period. [Expect this to unfold] around mid-May to early June.”

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Head of Ukraine's military intelligence service

22 Apr 2024 3 3

Iranian Presidential Office

Inserted 1 week ago

“The Islamic Republic of Iran, in line with the neighbourhood policy … is interested in promoting relations with Pakistan and during this trip, various issues including economic and commercial issues, energy and border issues will be discussed with the government of Pakistan.”

Statement by the Iranian Presidential Office

22 Apr 2024 1 1

Christian Wagner

Inserted 1 week ago

“We view the latest outbreaks of violence with great concern. Of course, this also applies above all to the violence that comes from extremist settlers. Israel, as the occupying power in the West Bank, has of course the duty and task to ensure security there, within the framework of the applicable law.”

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German Deputy Foreign Ministry spokesman

22 Apr 2024 6 3

Ilan Shor

Inserted 1 week ago

“We offer a new way for Moldova. The EU idea is a ghost; it destroys citizens and the country. [President Maia] Sandu has nothing to offer the people who she has already completely robbed … Sandu is deliberately breaking the umbilical cord of our ties with the CIS, with Russia … our traditional partners and neighbours.”

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Israeli-born Moldovan oligarch and politician

21 Apr 2024 4 1

Ismail Haniyeh

Inserted 1 week ago

“Despite dozens of sessions and communications exchanged via our mediators, the Zionist enemy until this point has not agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza. All they want is the return of captives so they can continue the war on Gaza - and this cannot be. They want Hamas and the resistance to agree to maps referencing the deployment of the Israeli army as if to say we are legitimising the occupation of the Strip. There must be a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.”

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Hamas leader

21 Apr 2024 (approx) 7 2

Viktor Orbán

Inserted 1 week ago

“In Europe the atmosphere is war, politics is dominated by the logic of war. I see everyone preparing for war. We are one step away from the West sending troops to Ukraine. This is a vortex of war that could push Europe into the abyss. Brussels he is playing with fire. We Hungarians know what war is like. We've been involved enough times. We don't want war and we don't want Hungary to become a playground for the great powers again. This is why we must fight for peace - at home, in Brussels, in Washington, at the United Nations and in NATO.”

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Prime Minister of Hungary

21 Apr 2024 8 3

Ali Khamenei

Inserted 1 week ago

“How many missiles were launched and how many of them hit their target is not the primary question, what really matters is that Iran demonstrated its power during that operation. In the recent operation, the armed forces managed to minimise costs and maximise gains. Debates by the other party about how many missiles were fired, how many of them hit the target and how many didn't, these are of secondary importance.”

Iran’s Supreme Leader

21 Apr 2024 1 2

Abbas Abdi

Inserted 1 week ago

“The external and internal challenges are two sides of the same coin for the establishment. With both Israel and internal dissent, they are taking an aggressive approach because they think both issues have reached a boiling point where if they do nothing it will only get worse.”

Prominent analyst and writer in Tehran

21 Apr 2024 2 3

Xie Feng

Inserted 1 week ago

“China does not gamble on the United States to lose, interfere in its internal affairs, or interfere in the U.S. election, and is willing to be a partner and friend with the United States. If the United States continues to interfere in China's internal affairs and harm China's interests on issues related to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet, and the South China Sea, how can we maintain the bottom line of bilateral relations no matter how many 'guardrails' are set up?”

China's ambassador to the United States

21 Apr 2024 6 2

Dmitry Peskov

Inserted 1 week ago

“The decision to provide aid to Ukraine was expected and predictable. This will further enrich the United States and further ruin Ukraine, with more Ukrainians killed due to the fault of the Kyiv regime. If the United States confiscates frozen Russian assets, it will have to answer for it. Any time limits here will be unlikely. And we will do it in the way that best suits our interests.”

Kremlin spokesman

20 Apr 2024 5 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 week ago

“Today we received the decision we had been waiting for: the US support package. The one for which we fought so hard. A very significant package that will be appreciated both by our soldiers on the frontline and by our towns and villages suffering from Russian terror. We appreciate every manifestation of support for our state and independence, our people and our lives, which Russia wants to bury in ruins. The US has shown its leadership from the very first days of the war. This kind of American leadership is vital for the preservation of the international order in the world, based on rules and predictability of life for all peoples. We will certainly use American support to strengthen both our nations and bring a just end to this war - a war that Putin must lose.”

President of Ukraine

20 Apr 2024 7 4

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Inserted 1 week ago

“It is vital that Palestinians act with unity in this process. The strongest response to Israel and the path to victory lie in unity and integrity.”

Turkish President

20 Apr 2024 5 1

Mahmoud Abbas

Inserted 1 week ago

“While the world agrees on the application of international law and stands by the Palestinian right, America continues to support the occupation, refusing to compel Israel to stop its genocidal war. It provides Israel with weapons and funds that kill our children and destroy our homes, and it stands against us in international forums, in positions that do not serve security and stability in the region. The United States has violated all international laws and abandoned all promises regarding the two-state solution and achieving peace in the region.”

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Palestinian Authority President

20 Apr 2024 7 3

Antony Blinken

Inserted 1 week ago

“When it comes to Russia's defense industrial base the primary contributor in this moment to that is China. We see China sharing machine tools, semiconductors, other dual use items that have helped Russia rebuild the defense industrial base. China can't have it both ways. It can't afford that. You want to have positive, friendly relations with countries in Europe, and at the same time, you are fueling the biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War.”

U.S. Secretary of State

19 Apr 2024 6 2

Hossein Amirabdollahian

Inserted 1 week ago

“What happened last night was no attack. It was the flight of two or three quad-copters, which are at the level of toys that our children use in Iran. As long as there is no new adventure on behalf of the Israeli regime against Iran's interests, we will have no response.”

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Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran

19 Apr 2024 3 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 week ago

“Just this year Ukraine had been attacked by almost 1,200 Russian missiles, more than 1,500 drones and 8,500 guided bombs amid a slowdown in Western military assistance. We are telling this directly - to defend, we need seven more 'Patriots' or similar air defence systems, and it's a minimum number. They can save many lives and really change the situation.”

President of Ukraine

19 Apr 2024 6 3

Ben Hodges

Inserted 1 week ago

“Since the fall of Avdiivka in Ukraine's east on February 17 [2024], its forces have oozed forward, swallowing several villages, as Ukrainian forces have performed tactical retreats. Here we are in April [2024], and [the Russians] are oozing out. Why is that? I think it's because that's the best the Russians can do. They do not have the capability to knock Ukraine out of the war. Russia lacked the ability to equip large armoured formations that could move rapidly, with supporting artillery, engineers and logistics. I don't think it exists. That's why I feel fairly confident that the mission for [Ukrainian] general Oleksandr Syrskyi for the next several months is to stabilise this as much as he can to buy time for Ukraine to grow the size of the army, to rebuild the defence industry of Ukraine, as well as give us time to find more ammunition for them. I think of 2024 as a year of industrial competition. So the army has got to buy time.”

Retired U.S. General and former Commander of NATO forces in Europe

19 Apr 2024 9 3

Igor Grosu

Inserted 1 week ago

“The plebiscite is a chance for Moldovans to show loudly and clearly that we are Europeans. ... We are not entering Europe, we are returning to it.”

Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova

18 Apr 2024 5 4

Maia Sandu

Inserted 1 week ago

“Joining the EU is the best thing we can give this and future generations.”

18 Apr 2024 2 4

Igor Dodon

Inserted 1 week ago

“We are categorically opposed to this referendum. We are not saying 'no' to talks with the EU and we are not opposed to the EU. We oppose Sandu using it as an instrument for her own interests and those of her party. We are therefore asking voters during the campaign not to take part in the referendum.”

Socialist Party chief and Moldovan president until his 2020 election loss to Sandu

18 Apr 2024 4 3

Marwan Bishara

Inserted 1 week ago

“Once again, the US's veto demonstrated a policy of it's my way or the highway. Palestine could only be a country the way the United States sees it, or Israel sees it, only at the time that it's suitable to the United States and within the geopolitics and the global interest of the United States. The US is sacrificing the freedom of Palestinian people for egotistical and narrow interests of the United States and Israel.”

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Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera

18 Apr 2024 4 2

Brad Setser

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Tariffs are currently 7.5 percent on electric vehicle battery packs but 25 percent on the components of those packs. The lower rate should be raised. China had long steered its subsidies to companies that manufacture and source their products in China - and sometimes had required those companies to be Chinese-owned. In order to build up industrial sectors where China has a first-mover advantage and now a cost advantage you need to have an insulated market - and to use some of the tools that China has already used.”

Senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington and a former adviser to the U.S. trade representative under Mr. Biden

18 Apr 2024 4 2

Lael Brainard

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“China's policy-driven overcapacity poses a serious risk to the future of the American steel and aluminum industry. China cannot export its way to recovery. China is simply too big to play by its own rules.”

Head of the White House National Economic Council

18 Apr 2024 5 4

Ruth Harris

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“War is a physical human endeavour and you have a force that is utterly exhausted, not slightly fatigued. It's a heavily attritional war. It's messy, it's bloody, there is nothing glorious about this. The glide bombs that are currently used are hugely devastating. They're cheap to make. They are pretty damn accurate and they can be adapted really quickly. They are fast and [the Russians] have a lot of them. This is a war of mass cost and pace. That's the operational factor on the ground.”

Head of military research at the RAND Corporation, a US Air Force think tank

18 Apr 2024 4 2

Ali Vaez

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“We are in a situation where basically everybody can claim victory. Iran can say that it took revenge, Israel can say it defeated the Iranian attack and the United States can say it successfully deterred Iran and defended Israel. If we get into another round of tit for tat, it can easily spiral out of control, not just for Iran and Israel, but for the rest of the region and the entire world.”

Iran director of the International Crisis Group

17 Apr 2024 3 1

Lloyd Austin

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Whether it's munitions, whether it's vehicles, whether it's platforms, I'll just tell you that Ukraine right now is facing some dire battlefield conditions. We're already seeing things on the battlefield begin to shift a bit in Russia's favour. We are seeing them make incremental gains. We're seeing the Ukrainians be challenged in terms of holding the line.”

US Secretary of Defense

17 Apr 2024 5 2

Robert Fico

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“According to international law, we all recognise another country's territorial integrity, sovereignty, and the inviolability of its borders. This is a sound theory of international law. But the Russians will never give up Crimea, Donbas, or Luhansk. There is no military solution and never will be. There will only be 100,000 more dead on one side or the other. The only thing that can help is for NATO to interfere, and this is World War III.”

Slovak Prime Minister

17 Apr 2024 8 1

Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“I look forward to engaging with both the Republic of Korea and Japan, but like-minded (countries) as well, on trying to develop options both inside the U.N. as well as outside the U.N. The point here is that we cannot allow the work that the panel of experts were doing to lapse.”

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United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden

17 Apr 2024 6 3

Hassan Ahmadian

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“After the hit on the Iranian consulate, the Iranians could not take it any more. They had to respond by re-establishing their deterrence credibility. Now the Israelis are talking about retaliation. This is not perceived as retaliation in Iran - it is perceived as another attack on Iran.”

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Professor at the University of Tehran

17 Apr 2024 5 3

Xi Jinping

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“First, we should prioritize the upholding of peace and stability and refrain from seeking selfish gains. Second, we should cool down the situation and not add fuel to the fire. Third, we need to create conditions for the restoration of peace and refrain from further exacerbating tensions. Fourth, we should reduce the negative impact on the world economy and refrain from undermining the stability of global industrial and supply chains.”

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President of the People's Republic of China

16 Apr 2024 7 1

Nazar Voloshyn

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“This is the dominant height in the region, and control over it will allow the Russian invaders, if they achieve it, to significantly simplify the advance in the direction of Kostiantynivka and the direction of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. These cities are the last stronghold of Donetsk Oblast, which is under the control of Ukraine.”

Spokesman for the Khortytsia Operational Strategic Group of Forces

16 Apr 2024 8 4

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“There were 11 missiles flying. We destroyed the first seven, and [the remaining] four destroyed Trypillia [village in which the Trypilska thermal power plant is situated]. Why? Because there were zero missiles. We ran out of missiles to defend Trypillia.”

President of Ukraine

16 Apr 2024 4 3

Peter Ricketts

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Netanyahu must have calculated when he hit the Iranian Consulate in Damascus that the Iranians would retaliate, and that this would swing the Americans and their Western allies behind Israel. And that's worked, remarkably well. It's all gain for Netanyahu if he has the wisdom to take the win, or at least to retaliate in a limited way.”

Former U.K. national security adviser

16 Apr 2024 3 2

Daniel Levy

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“There's been this united public response defending Israel on Iran, with strong private messaging to Israel, 'Don't you dare'. While on Gaza, there's a lot of public hand-wringing but a lack of will to be tough in private. Gaza doesn't directly pull the United States into a war. So, they still believe they can tiptoe through the raindrops.”

President of the U.S./Middle East Project and former Israeli peace negotiator

16 Apr 2024 3 2

Vali R. Nasr

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“If every time Israel decides to punish Iran, it creates a massive tumult in Washington and London, these countries are going to pressure Israel. There's going to be a major international effort to build cordons around Israel's behavior toward Iran.”

Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

16 Apr 2024 1 2

Annalena Baerbock

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Iran is playing with the fate of all people in the Middle East and has led an entire region to the brink of the abyss. The aim now is to stop Iran without further escalation. Iran's plan to sow further violence must not work. Israel has our full solidarity and can rely on us. We also do not forget the many dozens of Israeli hostages who are still being held captive in Hamas tunnels. They must finally be released.”

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Foreign Minister of Germany

16 Apr 2024 7 3

Herzi Halevi

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Iran's attack on the country will be met with a response. When we look ahead, we consider our steps. The launch of so many cruise missiles and drones into Israeli territory will be met with a response.”

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Israeli armed forces chief

15 Apr 2024 2 1

John Kirby

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Iran's massive aerial attack on Israel was a spectacular and embarrassing failure. We've seen reporting that the Iranians meant to fail, and this spectacular and embarrassing failure was all by design. All of this is categorically false.”

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White House national security spokesperson

15 Apr 2024 2 1

Jamal Rushdi

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“War crimes committed by the Israeli occupation on a daily basis in Gaza should not cover up what is happening in the West Bank. The imposition of sanctions by some countries on a number of colonists represents a small, late step that is insufficient to halt such attacks.”

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Spokesperson for the Arab League Council’s Secretary-General

15 Apr 2024 6 2

Itamar Ben-Gvir

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Defence Minister Gallant's decision to evacuate and destroy buildings on the Gal Yosef farm, where 14-year old Benjamin Achimeir was murdered, even during the week of shiva [mourning], represents terrible obtuseness, moral confusion, security folly and a violation of the dignity of the dead. Instead of establishing and approving more farms and expanding Jewish settlements, we surrender to the enemy. The time has come for the prime minister to consider replacing Minister Gallant.”

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Minister of National Security of Israel

15 Apr 2024 4 1

John Kirby

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Our commitment is ironclad to defending Israel and to helping Israel defend itself. As the president has said many times, we don't seek a wider war in the region. We don't seek a war with Iran.”

White House national security spokesperson

14 Apr 2024 2 2

Pavel Felgenhauer

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Russia surprisingly stands with the rest of the international community in that it does not want an escalation following Iran's attack on Israel. This could impede Russian interests region. It could embroil Iran in a war that would mean that Iran would be hardly capable of sending more weapons to Russia, and of course, it could engulf Russian troops in Syria and Lebanon in a possible escalation of this conflict into a regional one. Among the Russian establishment are pro-Israeli elements who would not want to have a confrontation with Israel. Israel has not joined sanctions [against Russia], it's not dedicated as an enemy country, Israel is not supplying weapons or military technology to Ukraine, so Russia would want to keep this status quo.”

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Russian defence analyst

14 Apr 2024 5 2

Nader Hashemi

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“President Biden is rallying the G7 who will issue a condemnatory statement of Iran along these lines. In the Global South the response will be more measured. There will be calls for restraint, de-escalation and diplomacy without directly blaming Iran or Israel. Arab and Muslim public opinion will note how many Arab states deployed military resources to protect Israel while doing the opposite in the context of the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza.”

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Associate professor of Middle East and Islamic politics at Georgetown University

14 Apr 2024 8 1

Marwan Bishara

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Prime Minister Netanyahu is the architect of the relationship with the United States, and he's the architect of his coalition government. He is manipulating both of them. As far as he's concerned, he's looking for his best options. I think he is already discussing and negotiating with President Biden about the price for not responding to Iran that some might expect or his ministers want. Now the price could be a number of things: one, more American support. More unconditionality of American support - definitely clearing criticism of Israel's indiscriminately bombing Gaza and so forth. Netanyahu will probably get more money, he will get more aid, he will get more American support.”

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Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera

14 Apr 2024 5 4

Alon Liel

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“We already know the war cabinet has not approved a response and the Americans had a big share in it, so it looks as if Israel won't respond for a while and we'll go back to our business in Gaza. Prime Minister Netanyahu still needs to resolve two things in Gaza: the release of captives and the Hamas battalions. I think Netanyahu might use this wave of support for Israel during the Iranian attack to go down to Rafah. But he cannot do it without fully coordinating with the Americans. This is the issue that is really bothering him, because without going back to Rafah he cannot describe the war as a victory.”

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Former director of Israel’s foreign ministry

14 Apr 2024 5 3

Anthony Albanese

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Iran has ignored our call, and those of many others, not to proceed with these reckless attacks. This escalation is a grave threat to the security of Israel and the entire region.”

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Prime Minister of Australia

14 Apr 2024 3 1

Daniel Hagari

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Israel's military intercepted 99 percent of the aerial threats launched at it on Saturday. The Nevatim air force base in the Negev desert in southern Israel suffered only light damage and is functioning. Iran thought it would paralyze the base. It failed.”

Chief Israeli military spokesperson

14 Apr 2024 4 1

Daniel Hagari

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“A number of Iranian missiles fell inside Israeli territory, causing minor damage to a military base with no casualties. Only one little girl has been hurt, and we hope she will be well.”

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Chief Israeli military spokesperson

14 Apr 2024 3 2

Lloyd Austin

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“We do not seek conflict with Iran, but we will not hesitate to act to protect our forces and support the defense of Israel.”

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US Secretary of Defense

13 Apr 2024 2 2

Dave Des Roches

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“It seems that Iranian leaders are determined to take action, but also seen to take action. What that indicates to me is that there are considerations of pride and prestige that are divorced from strategy and tactical utility that may indicate a more dangerous era than we thought. Iran may not have really counted the possibility its attack on Israel could take the focus off Gaza. The pressure that had been building on Israel to restrain from further actions in Gaza, that may have been lifted as a result of this attack.”

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Associate Professor at the National Defense University in Washington DC

13 Apr 2024 3 2

Mike Johnson

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“I will continue to engage with the White House to insist upon a proper response. The Biden Administration's undermining of Israel and appeasement of Iran have contributed to these terrible developments.”

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US House of Representatives Speaker

13 Apr 2024 4 1

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“I've just spoken with Prime Minister Netanyahu to reaffirm America's ironclad commitment to the security of Israel. I told him that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks - sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel.”

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President of the United States

13 Apr 2024 4 1

Dana Stroul

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“If Iran's objective was to punish and isolate Israel, it appears to have fallen well short of that objective. The U.S. and Israeli militaries were able to defend against a complex attack. Given how significant this attack was, it is difficult to see how Israel cannot respond.”