Quotes About Conflict

What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.

Many of our forces collapsed when Daesh rolled into Iraq.

You don't go from being friends and work colleagues, working in a close environment, to then not speaking.

I want total peace for Colombia.

Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.

I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism.

Being in combat is not unending high-five moments.

I was a bodyguard for somebody I love. That's not a good combination. I was always ready to beat somebody up.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

One of the problems in our lives is that people from different segments of our society just don't communicate with each other, nor do you ever see entertainment where they communicate with each other and fight with each other.

Always keep the lines of communication open with your adversaries.

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.

Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

It's difficult to compete against a player that's also refereeing the game.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

I hate competition.

To me, everything's competition.

We are competitors.

I know how the game works. If I field one, then the other complains. It's always the same.

We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.