#stern

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game. ↗

— David Miliband

#aid #big #british #contribution #date

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#army #communication #eventual #extent #front

People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#developers #different #fields #games #good

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith. ↗

— Richard Morris

#catholic faith #certainly #decent #faith #great

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#certainly #civil #civil rights #create #deep

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#bob #far #grew #his #i

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#know #society #western #western society #writers

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#democracies #iraq #just #rest #symbol

Western man is schizophrenic. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#schizophrenic #western #western man

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#capacity #countries #gnp #important #industrialized