Quotes About Conflict

When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues.

There's some jerks. There's some big egos. There are a few that think they're one of the Founding Fathers... in both parties.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

None of the parties want this conflict to go on.

Boxing is not that complicated. If two guys want to fight, it's not hard to make a fight. If the fight's not made, it's because one party doesn't want that fight, or maybe both parties don't want it.

I am not pollyannaish about the deep partisan battles that divide us.

In the old way of doing business, it was fine to disagree and then go to dinner. Now it's personal and more partisan, and a disagreement on one issue leads to a disagreement on another issue.

I think partisanship is probably the greatest problem in Washington, D.C.

I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.

Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner.

I noticed that parts of the opposition have been hostile to any revision of the constitution.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

According to some tallies, since 1776, the United States has been at war 93 percent of its existence, passing through a mere 21 years of peace.

Mrrrp? To anyone else in the Cahill universe, the high-pitched sound of the pet Egyptian Mau had a hundred different meanings: the playful mrrp , the I-want-red-snapper mrrp , the that-wasn't-enough-red-snapper mrrp , the thank-you-for-the-meager-portion-of-red-snapper mrrp . And on and on. But to Ian Kabra's ears, each was the I-hate-you-with-all-my-soul mrrp .

The boy smiled -- mostly at Amy. "Sorry, her heart belongs to Ian Kabra," Dan said, except that something in her expression made him realize her heart didn't belong at all to Ian right now.