#ira

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#building #china #coalition #coalitions #does

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#addition #age #become #bomb #century

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. ↗

— Richard Perle

#close #doubt #exception #iraq #liberated

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ↗

— David Petraeus

#could #council #difficult #during #elected

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect. ↗

— David Petraeus

#art #best #bosnia #coalition #command

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#encouraging #forgets #given #never #private

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#dissolve #does #everything #like #lump

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? ↗

— Ron Reagan

#around #awful #floating #had #i

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#everyone #help #someone