Quotes about "War & Peace"

One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike. ”

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect. ”

At a policy level, we can support protecting and serving as opposed to militarization or disproportionate response. Step one is making sure we don't militarize and actually call for a review of military equipment in New York police forces. ”

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real. ”

The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable. ”

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy. ”

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. ”

War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities. ”

Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well. ”

I was a military brat. My dad was in the military, so I was born in Germany. I moved around a lot; I was in church a lot. ”