Quotes About Conflict

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.

Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.

I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.

We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem to perceive as an Iranian nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning.

With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.

When you look at Syria, and you look at all the militant groups on the ground, there are many groups in Syria that could pose a threat to the United States, not just Khorasan.

The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.

Israel's security doctrine is not that Israel must invade every place from which a threat to Israel emanates.

While our nation's attention is rightly focused on the Middle East, the North Korean threat has grown exponentially, while there seems to be a falling asleep, so to speak, at the switch when it comes to North Korea.

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.

The PKK is the number one threat in terms of terror in our country.

ISIS is the greatest threat.

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.