Quotes About Conflict

Washington is agonizingly slow at learning from its mistakes. Especially in the Middle East.

Around us in the Middle East there is total chaos. I'm not willing to give up on my land for this chaos.

Islamists and their sympathizers hate us, and they will not stop hating us until we convert to ancient Islam. There is no middle ground or accommodation.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

It is the RSS and the BJP that have always initiated political violence in our midst; not just in Kerala, but in the entire country.

Making sense of a political moment when you're in the midst of it is difficult: even if you avoid commercial and personal conflicts, it can still be hard to see it and understand it.

In the midst of the war against ISIS, we have also waged war on corruption in civil and military institutions.

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'

My own father flipped out on me when I told him we decided to ditch our doctor and go with a midwife instead.

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

Mike Pence doesn't stand for anything that I really believe in.

If I got into a fight in a bar, I'd miss the dude by miles. I wouldn't know how to connect. It would be a comedy.

Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

Military intervention is never the answer.

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.

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

Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

Any time you use military force, you have got to have a clear purpose that military forces can achieve.

Military force can't defeat ideology.