Quotes About Conflict

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

The first encounter was when the Vikings came across 10 Indians taking naps under their overturned canoes - and the Vikings killed them. That did not set up a very good mutual relationship.

The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.

For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon.

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

There is a narrative of 'Washington fighting' because it's interesting and it's drama.

In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields.

Politics is a nasty business.

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

I like to get on with people. I don't go around being nasty, but if someone crosses me, I can be horrible back.

I had a big fight in my first week in secondary school. There was a kid in the year above who was nasty to me, and we ended up having a scrap. I can remember thinking that there was going to be some serious bloodshed if we didn't stop, so I made a decision to walk away. It was a difficult thing to do, but the most sensible.

I've never been in a place where I've wanted to be that nasty to someone.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

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.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.

But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.

My place is in Serbia if the NATO criminals bomb.

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states.