Quotes About Intervention

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

Be in no doubt: we are completely committed to make sure we support young people with the additional resources that are necessary to give them the alternatives to the offer that's put forward by the terrible criminals on the streets.

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'

Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.

The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.

You have to intervene really, really strongly with people who are habitual knife-carriers, that includes stop and search definitely, you have to keep them locked up.

I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs.

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment.

My role in Nandita Das' 'Firaaq' as a woman too impotent to intervene when her community resorts to brutality and violence has struck a chord wherever the film has been screened.

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

Man's extremity is God's opportunity.

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about intervening in other countries militarily that I wouldn't normally spout over dinner. In the moment of writing the play, I genuinely changed what I thought.

I ask one more thing from our father above - God save Bolivia.

We all want somebody to come in and save the day and change our lives for the better.

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.

Americans might not want to intervene in the outside world, but the outside world will still want to intervene in America.

years, no goal of Washington—not a single one—has been accomplished by war.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on the whole, than waiting for the thick wall encircling life to brutally make the first move. (As happens during wartime.)

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.