Quotes About Conflict

Politicians always criticize each other in different ways.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.

I came into politics to fight lefties... That's where political fighting goes.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Politics is, by its nature, not my favorite thing because it's more about dividing people, not bringing them together.

Pakistan's key leaders have succumbed to the assassin's bullet or bomb or the hangman's noose, and the country has seen four military coups since its birth in 1947. Yet the Pakistani polity has limped on.

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

There is no war between Muslims and Americans. There is no war between Americans and the poor people in the world. There is only a war between people on the top who have their own agenda.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like Mexico City and Lagos becoming increasingly common in some of the poorest parts of the world.

I had no problem with Ritchie. Ritchie and I never argued. We never had a problem. I think I was always able to write the things that he wanted - until he decided he wanted to be a pop star. And then he started doing pop music. And once he did that, that was the end for me.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family - my aunties, grandparents - is in Africa.

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

It's much easier to gain control over a mass population when you pit them against each other.

Many of Israel's Arabs, which see themselves as part of the Palestinian population, feel the pain of their brothers across the green line - a pain they feel the state of Israel is responsible for.

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.