Quotes About Conflict

While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.

Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.

Troops fighting for their lives should not have to ask a lawyer sitting in air conditioning 500 miles away for permission to drop a bomb.

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Launching a ground war against Iran would require hundreds of thousands of troops for a 'regime change followed by nation-building' operation, as we attempted in Iraq. Iran has a much more modern military, more than double Iraq's population, and almost four times the landmass.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

Charlie Rangel is angry about the Iraq war, the one that Henry Kissinger has told us we can't win. Thanks, Henry, but most Americans figured that out before you did. Rangel saw combat in Korea. Kissinger has only seen combat on TV. That might have something to do with why Kissinger thinks our troops should stay in Iraq even though we can't win.

We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.

Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out.

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

I don't support the troops, America, and neither do you.

Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.

I don't believe that any prime minister would send our troops into conflict without the assurance from the military that they had the equipment necessary for the operation.