Quotes About Conflict

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.

The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran had paused its nuclear weaponization work also reported with high confidence that such work had been going on through 2003. How far did they get? That's an important question, but I fear that the Iranians will never answer it, and we will not insist that they do.

If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions.

I'm not a war reporter.

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

I'm reporting on a world at war.

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

I wasn't elected to avoid conflict. I was elected to represent the people of the 2nd District.

All religions throughout history have been concerned about - and have sometimes fought over - what it means to represent God, and they have found elegant, intriguing, and awkward ways to confront that dilemma.

'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.

When the people's representatives have to go on record and vote, it transforms our country. It is a full recognition that we are in a state of war.

What I care most about is representing my constituents. If that ruffles a few feathers along the way, so be it.

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.

The brutality against the Baloch people represents the worst form of State oppression.

I have so much respect for the Queen and for Charles, and what the family represents. And yet there's still a conflict about whether we can abolish the class system while also having a Royal family.

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brutally repressed all forms of opposition to his regime, and before the Iraq War, al Qaeda had no presence in Iraq.

Let's face it: much of what we truly value in life is rooted in our experience of repression and conflict.

The seed of revolution is repression.