Quotes About Intervention

United States had committed a "number of sins" in prerevolutionary Cuba, including turning the island into "the whorehouse of the U.S.

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

There's nothing like waiting on the move of God; when you move you'll see God in action

Sometimes addiction seems more like possession, a death grip from Satan that requires supernatural intervention. Absolution from end-stage chemical obsession tends to force otherwise faithless men to their knees.)

Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

Keynesian orthodoxy started from the assumption that capitalist markets would not really work unless capitalist governments were willing effectively to play nanny: most famously, by engaging in massive deficit "pump-priming" during downturns.

Where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel?

observed the pope. "Some remain secret, others are exploited. Whenever we are told of such cases, we intervene immediately. And severely.

When you do change the circumstances under which you collect the data—when you intervene—the data are said to be "experimental." Experimental data are particularly important, because they can give you information about the counterfactuals mentioned in chapter

Oh my lord," Smiley exclaims. "We've got to roll her off of Billy before he smothers to death.

Education is important, but we're to the point where almost everyone knows they shouldn't drink and drive. The people who are still doing it are choosing to do it. The most effective way to deal with them is to arrest them.

The will to save a life is not the power to stop a death.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

And if I'd found you lying there in the sun, and left you? What would you call that if not murder? --- It's not the same, Cain mutters. --- Is to me. A man who witnesses a death without trying to prevent it is as responsible for the man who causes it.

God specializes in impossible situations.

Find where God is and get behind what He's doing. He always wins.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

God sends people into our lives just when we need them, to say the right word, His word, just when we need it.

God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?

Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.