Quotes About Intervention

We need mental health counselors in every school that needs one.

All governments could do more on mental health.

We must offer mental health services in the community, where people are, including in our schools.

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

Our message to the Russians is stay out of the U.S. elections.

Some people look like they're lost causes, but they're not. Even if they're in a messed up situation, the one little thing you do to help can go a long way.

I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.

Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848.

I didn't like the Feds coming to town when I was in Miami, telling me what to do. I didn't like them coming to town and thinking that they knew more about Miami than I do.

People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

We can stay in Afghanistan and the Middle East forever, and it won't make a difference.

Military intervention is never the answer.

Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

Ed Timpson is a fantastic minister for early intervention, and Liz Truss is a fantastic minister for Sure Start.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

No wonder historians loathe Harding and Coolidge; these presidents' success goes to show how much better off the country might be if ambitious politicians with their grandiose plans would just shut up and leave us alone.

As Hayek, Milton Friedman, and so many others pointed out, a state with power, means, and inclination to intervene so heavily in economic affairs is unlikely to stop there. In the process of all this, religion and civil society are crowded out, appreciation for their role languishes, and the groundwork is laid for more restrictions on them in the future.

A number of governments, such as India and the Philippines, routinely opposed certain initiatives, preferring to elevate either solidarity among developing countries (and their collective desire to fend off criticism as unacceptable intervention) or the principle of state sovereignty over the protection of human beings.

Swithin had, in fact, arisen as an attractive little intervention between herself and despair.

The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others.

Government "planning" is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people's plans.

The feeling that the government should "do something" has seldom been based on a comparison of what actually happens when government does and when it does not "do something.