Quotes About Conflict

Hamas's strategy is resistance and survival. As long as they survive, this is a victory.

We have to face the fact that ISIS and its army of like-minded jihadists are determined to win that war and believe they are on the path to victory. They may well be right.

Large elements in Congress and the public were willing to fight for victory but wanted to be very sure that the struggle was not contaminated by any moral principles.

I loved 'Casablanca.' You know, right vs. wrong. I think I like a movie where there is a victory, right over wrong, but there's always some price to be paid.

The largest humanitarian victory we can deliver is by wiping ISIS off the face of the earth.

Defeating a terrorist organization is like fighting a forest fire; there's never a clear moment of victory, and even after you've won, you have to watch carefully.

You know, when you read stories in the Bible - you know, Samson, the story of David or the story of Moses - you know, there's conflict on the way to the victory.

I can kick your head off, but I can't, like, play a stupid little video game.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

I returned to Vietnam in '94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

What America did in Vietnam and the Congo - we feel. And as a result come these demonstrations. I am not defending the act of burning USIS books. We deplore it. But we can understand the motives of the students.

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

Vietnam was not a war of choice the United States had to fight. It was clearly not central.

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.