Nursultan Nazarbayev Quotes

Kazakhstan, Politician
July 6, 1940

Nursultan Äbishuly Nazarbayev is a Kazakh politician, who has served as President of Kazakhstan since the office was created on 24 April 1990 (28 years ago). He was named First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR in 1989, and was elected as the nation's first president following its independence from the Soviet Union. He holds the title "Leader of the Nation". In April 2015, Nazarbayev was re-elected with almost 98% of the vote.

We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Earth
- Moving
- Philosophy
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
- People
- Law
- States

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
- World
- Danger
- Mankind
We know that golf is an ancient game with great history and tradition, but our golf is only 10 years old so don't judge us too harshly.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Golf
- Judging
- Tradition
The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Common
- Islam
- Terrorist
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Important
- Country
- War
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Spiritual
- Progress
- Bases

We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Country
- Needs
- Next
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
- People
- Past
- Able
When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Culture
- Problem
- Survival
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

Nursultan Nazarbayev
- Today
- Community
- Reason