Quotes About Conflict

Nuclear missiles don't discriminate on party lines when they land.

I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.

Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally different ball game.

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

There are nuts in this country.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That's just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.

Being in a rock n' roll group, or being a musician, it is in conflict in some serious cultural ways with being an observant Jew, but in a conceptual way, for me, they go together real well.

The greatest thing for me is that my dad is a football hooligan. He's an obsessive football fan. And I think he wanted me to be a footballer and I wasn't. Instead, I probably disappointed him by going into the arts.

If there is no peace in Central America, it will not be because Costa Rica, and myself as president, have not done what is necessary to obtain peace.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

Something happened to the State of Israel. What was morally obvious in 1948 is not so obvious anymore. When the State of Israel was established, it was, for the parents and grandparents of these young Jews, a miracle. It was David and Goliath. We were the just cause. It was about values. We were small, but we were the good guys in the world!

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

During earlier occasions, I was fighting big parties - the BJP, Congress and BSP - and had also to face factional fight within the SP. I had to take on Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati and Azam Khan. I did have the support of Mulayam Singh Yadav though.

The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.

Just because we're rid of Saddam and the evil Batthists doesn't mean the occupation is a good thing. Our salvation from Saddam was only with the grace of God.

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.