#stability

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. ↗

— Barack Obama

#afghanistan #defensive #iraq #lack #military

We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#element #oil #price #stability #will

Stability means respecting precedents. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#precedents #respecting #stability

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#atmosphere #creates #diplomacy #distrust #however

Without justice you won't have stability. ↗

— Saad Hariri

#stability #without #won #you

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#currency #entire #european #frame #international

But I knew it was pure masturbation, because down in my gut I wanted nothing more than a clean bed and a bright room and something solid to call my own at least until I got tired of it. There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detatched. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#maturity #stability #age

The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country. ↗

— Peter Pace

#armed #armed forces #bottom #bottom line #country

We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#access #broad #enough #ensure #friend

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#country #impose #invade #regime #stability