Quotes About Intervention

The British consul in Mashed later wrote in his memoirs that what had turned "Russia from hot-war ally to cold-war rival" was the "vigorous American intervention to capture the Persian market, especially the efforts of Socony-Vacuum to secure oil prospecting rights.

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

war doesn't end war any more than a heroin fix ends a heroin addiction.

Now, tell me everything, please. Of course if he has harmed you I shall kill him, whoever he is," he added matter-of-factly. "But otherwise, perhaps something can be done.

I can predict things. I can improve the uptime and the reliability. I can intervene and cause a better outcome before there's a problem.

The Luke Cage you saw in Season One was a reluctant hero. He was trying to figure out if he wanted to be a hero in the first place. And then fate intervened and forced him to step up his game.

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.

Rent control created deadweight loss.

We need to aim to get rid of food banks altogether, and replace charitable intervention with a fairer, more equal society.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

Knife crime isn't an issue that's going to go away just because of repression and police action. Of course we need to support the forces, but it's linked to prevention, and prevention often comes through education.

The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other things, they established a long-standing pattern of dealing with foreign policy problems through armed interventions and also inspired the iconic phrase 'the shores of Tripoli' in the Marine Corps hymn.

I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him. The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state.

Saddam Hussein was the one person after whom the United States went, and they ruined the country.

We need to do a better job identifying what's contributing to the crime and making sure we hold people accountable in a way that addresses that root cause.

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

We have not argued in either Brazil or Argentina that the IMF should step in to protect the banks.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.