Quotes About Conflict

Bush, and Blair, and the prime minister of Japan, and Berlusconi, these people are criminals, and they are responsible for mass murder in the world, for the war, and for the occupation, through their support for Israel, and through their support for a globalized capitalist economic system, which is the biggest killer the world has ever known.

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

Sometimes you're going to be shoved into a corner, and even though it's against your principles, against the way that you like to play the game, you're going to have to protect your own players.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

Our love for the Founders leads us to abandon, and even to betray, the very principles they fought for.

I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.

My priorities? Assisting our allies, the Kurds, in their fight against ISIS.

On a daily basis, I have to fight the internal battle to keep my priorities straight.

We prioritize dialogue, even in our fight with bandits and gangs.

The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

It's - getting Assad out is not the only priority. And so what we're trying to do is obviously defeat ISIS.

My worst memory is living through the 1989 riot in Huntingdon Prison.

The prisoner never loves his warden, even if he obeys the rules from time to time.

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

I understand the importance which the Palestinian society attributes to the issue of prisoners.

My mum is the opposite of my dad. She's a very private person, very shy and totally against boxing. She never watched any of my fights live. She hated me doing it.

When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively.

I don't do much political stuff because our nation is so divided, we can't say one thing without the other side automatically assumes that you are pro the other side.

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

I expect if people have had a problem with me or my attitude, then they come and take it directly with me, face to face.