Executive’s “Quote of the Month” throughout 2019

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JANUARY “It’s different from Washington and London, we should maybe teach them how to run a country without a budget.”Then-caretaker foreign minister, Gebran Bassil, answering a question on cabinet formation in an interview with CNN, January 22, 2019. FEBRUARY “My decision and the government’s decision is to work, work, work.”Prime Minister Saad Hariri, speaking to Parliament ahead of a vote of confidence in the government on February 15. MARCH “How does stockpiling tens of thousands of rockets and missiles in Lebanon territory for use against Israel make this country stronger?”US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking at a press conference in Beirut on March 22. APRIL “This decision shows that the US audacity and folly went beyond limits.”Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah on the US decision to designate Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist organization, during a speech on April 10. MAY “The 2019 budget is not the end. This budget