Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis
Stephen Henry Lewis, CCis a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster and diplomat. He was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 November 1937
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
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When people are dying by the thousands every day, unnecessarily, when we've had this horrendous pandemic unfold for two decades while the world stands by and watches - you'll do anything in your power to move the process.
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Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
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There's a feeling the stock market is overbought and it would be dangerous to keep pushing it higher.
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The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
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I should have moved for a continuation and deposed him. It affected the outcome. I called (Alcorn's) girlfriend without interviewing her in advance. It was a horrible mistake that prejudiced the case.
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Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.
The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.
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In some ways, I think people who have been in the career service have an advantage.
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I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.
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I don't think the world yet realizes the carnage that is to come. I don't think the world yet realizes the full, incomparable horror of AIDS, and its inexorable spread around the planet.
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How do you save married women, who have no choice?
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Gordon Brown's proudest boast is that, during his stewardship, the U.K. economy has consistently grown from one quarter to the next. The Bank Governor seems to be saying that this achievement was primarily a 'nice' decade phenomenon, and not the hard-won and well-merited result of outstandingly successful policies.
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It is worth noting that, in its revised forecasts for GDP growth, the OECD saw fit to raise its 1999 forecasts for most (euro-zone) member-countries, as compared with its June projections, but lowered those for Germany and Italy.