“We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.” StatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesSawsLandConflictFourthTroopsHistoricForeign LandsAmerican Troops Author:Michele Bachmann
“President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait .” KnowsMenNeedsShouldWarCountryAmericaOpportunityPresidentEffortOpinionEconomicLike YouConflictShould HaveIntelligentExtraordinaryIraqAdmireBordersFundPresident BushDisagreementIntelligent ManKuwait Author:April Glaspie
“Intervention in Syria is not an option. President Obama has already helped foment this civil war and supported the al-Qaeda jihadists. This is an explosive region, and more US intervention means more people will die. We should be choosing peace - not a new conflict. More so than anyone else, my supporters know that America cannot afford another unlawful, immoral war in the Middle East. Stand with me and tell President Obama to stay out of Syria.” PeopleKnowsShouldMeanWarAmericaDiesPresidentMiddleConflictEastCivil WarRegionsAlsPresident ObamaMiddle EastSyriaSupporterImmoralInterventionAl QaedaExplosivesUnlawful Author:Ron Paul
“Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.” TryingBelieveRealWisdomRealityTodayOpportunityPoliticsI BelievePresidentCommunityChallengesLeadershipDifferencesJusticeResponsibilityHistoryTechnologyViolenceGenerationsAchievePolicyConflictWeaponsSpringSolutionsEthicsProgramTestsStrategyUnityProfoundHuman RightsNuclearPeacefulIdeologyChiefsIranResolveForeign PolicyNuclear WeaponsDiplomacyCivilityCommandersComprehensiveSettlementObtainingCommander In ChiefArab Spring Author:Barack Obama
“Under the Obama regime, the president and his allies are intentional in pursuing these conflicts from the perspective that you must sacrifice your most sacred beliefs to government the instant you start a business. You have the protection of the First Amendment as an individual, you see – but the instant you start a business, you lose those protections.” FirstsGovernmentReligionPoliticsIndividualBeliefEnergyPresidentLosesWorkSacrificePolicyHealthPerspectiveConflictEthicsCapitalismSacredHuman RightsProtectionIdeologyInstantAlliesRegimesAmendmentsConsumerismFirst Amendment Author:Bobby Jindal
“Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Has BeensPresidentModernWorstConflictPalestinianAmerican HistoryIsraeliIsraeli Palestinian Conflict Author:Reza Aslan
“Barack Obama has done something I find very hard to understand. Ever since FDR, we`ve had the capacity to be engaged in two conflicts at once, and he`s saying, No, we`re going to cut that back to only one conflict.” TwoHardDonePresidentCuttingConflictCapacityBarackEngagedSaying NoPresident Barack Obama Author:Mitt Romney
“One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.” PeopleIfsThinkingReasonNextPresidentConflictToleranceOur TimeReasonableHopefulDivisionDividedFearfulFeeding Author:Barack Obama
“I am the president of 146 million Russians. I have to represent their interests. We are willing to settle this without any conflicts and to search for compromises on the basis of international law.” LawPresidentInterestMillionsWillingConflictBasesInternationalCompromiseSettlingInternational Law Author:Vladimir Putin
“It's really a situation [ Donald Trump's children are involved now in choosing the next government] that no other president had in years and years. He clearly is not going to follow the idea that - generally there is no rule that requires this but there generally is a situation which people are required to put their interests to the side so they don't have a conflict.” PeopleYearsChildrenIdeasGovernmentNextSidesPresidentInterestSituationTrumpInvolvedConflict Author:Brian Ross
“The president is exempt from the conflict of interest rules that all other administrations must - administration officials must abide by.” PresidentInterestConflictAdministrationOfficialsConflict Of Interest Author:George Stephanopoulos
“Presidential trust is something, that's perishable and it's precious. And once a president loses it, it's not a question of whether it's conflict of interests laws or there aren't conflict of interests laws.” LawPresidentInterestLosesConflictPresidentialConflict Of Interest Author:Mark Shields
“The president-elect [Donald Trump] himself in the interview with "The New York Times" says there is no law that governs conflict of interest in - with the president.” LawPresidentInterestNew YorkTrumpConflictInterviewsNew York TimesConflict Of Interest Author:Chuck Todd
“We learned that President-elect [Donald] Trump intends to keep his executive producer title on Celebrity Apprentice. We know he's going to come out later this week and talk about how he's going to handle the overall conflicts of interests, perhaps, with his businesses in the White House.” KnowsHousePresidentInterestWhiteWeekTrumpConflictHandleProducersTitlesExecutivesWhite HouseApprenticeConflict Of Interest Author:George Stephanopoulos
“Newt Gingrich said that this executive producer is weird and it raises - does raise questions about possible conflicts. The FCC regulates NBC corporations can try to curry favor with the president by placing their products on the show [Celebrity Apprentice].” TryingDoeSaidShowsPresidentProductsConflictRaisesFavorsProducersCorporationsExecutivesApprenticeNbcNewtsCurryFccRaises Questions Author:George Stephanopoulos
“I commended Angela [Merkel] for her leadership along with President Hollande in working to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. We continued to stand with the people of Ukraine and for the basic principle that nations have a right to determine their own destiny and we discussed the importance of maintaining sanctions until Russia fully complies with the Minsk Agreement.” PeopleNationsPresidentPrinciplesDestinyConflictImportanceDetermineRussiaAgreementResolveMaintainingUkraineSanctionsBasic PrinciplesAngela Author:Barack Obama
“It's important to understand that the president [Donald Trump] is now entering a world of public service. He's going to be asking his own appointees to make sacrifices. He's going to be asking our men and women in uniform to risk their lives in conflicts around the world.” MenWorldImportantPresidentRiskSacrificeTrumpConflictMen And WomenAskingAround The WorldUniformsEnteringPublic Service Author:Reince Priebus
“Some of the conflict of interest laws do apply to the president, particularly The Emoluments Clause to "The Constitution," which prohibits any type of benefit from a foreign government.” GovernmentLawPresidentInterestTypeConflictBenefitsConstitutionClausesConflict Of Interest Author:Reince Priebus
“When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.” Would BeRunningCertainPresidentInterestConflictAppearanceObligationConflict Of Interest Author:Charles Schumer
“Karzai is Afghanistan's first democratically elected president. He brought the international community into partnership on an unprecedented level, and he championed a new constitution that is liberal, democratic and still very Afghan. All of that does reflect a vision. But he's presided over a country that is still in conflict, and he hasn't taken some of the difficult decisions his own government wanted him to take. On corruption, he hasn't been as decisive as he should've been. There are legitimate questions about him.” ShouldFirstsDoeStillsCountryGovernmentWantedDifficultPresidentCommunityDecisionLevelsVisionTakenConflictConstitutionDemocraticInternationalCorruptionAfghanistanPartnershipUnprecedentedInternational CommunityAfghanDifficult Decisions Author:Chris Alexander
“I understand and respect people who say they want to boycott the Trump brand. I also respect your right to buy his products. But what you miss is that no one in public office, Hilary or Trump should use that platform to profit themselves. In Trump's case there are serious concerns about the conflict of interest in his brand and business ownership. Do we really want a president who had products he can push while working for the American people?” PeoplePresidentInterestMissingSeriousConflictOfficeConcernOwnershipBoycottRespect People Author:Michelle Singletary
“It's certainly something we haven't seen before in terms of a fully commercial global brand - really a family of brands - not just Trump but also Ivanka, who has a sub-brand. We've never seen this before. We've had presidents in financial conflicts of interest before, but this phenomenon where a sitting president image avatar is out there selling golf courses and condominiums, even as he is in office and having the value of his personal brand inflated dramatically by fact of his being president, is new territory.” ValuesPresidentTermInterestConflictOfficeGolfFinancialSellingPhenomenonGolf Course Author:Naomi Klein
“I grew up in the American South, the segregated South. Now we have a black man who is president. It was an age of apartheid, and now that's over. It was an age of two superpowers frozen in a cold war, and now that's resolved. So history marches on, except for this Arab-Israel conflict, which seems to have a claim on being eternal.” MenWarAgeBlackPresidentColdConflictOver ItMarchCold WarSuperpowerApartheid Author:Lawrence Wright
“President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.” WayShouldYearsBelieveChildrenEndsFoundSpeakI BelieveCausesPresidentGenerationsAchieveConflictOur ChildrenAimDedicatedPalestinianGrandchildrenAdvancingAbba Author:Benjamin Netanyahu
“A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.” PeopleHeartAsksPresidentConflictDividesReconciliation Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” WorldWayChildrenMadeWarPoliticalHumanityPoliticsPeacePresidentPovertyMilitaryThis WorldArmsColdGeniusConflictGunCrossesScientistFinalsHungerCloudsSpendingWar Of The WorldsIronFedsSweatAntiwarCold WarTheftRocketsVietnam WarGreat WarLaborersHanging OnMake Peace Not WarFree GovernmentArmamentEnding PovertyGovernment SpendingSpending MoneyWorld HungerUs PresidentPeace Not WarJust WarWorld PovertyCost Of WarMilitary SoldierWar On PovertyHunger And PovertyHunger PovertyGlobal PovertyGreatest MilitaryMilitary BudgetPolitics And WarMilitary SpendingCold WorldMilitary LifeWarshipsDefense SpendingPowerful GovernmentMilitary Weapons Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.” WorldTwoWarStatesPresidentUnitedBusinessUnited StatesCenturyMilitaryConflictRoseFinancialOilWar Of The WorldsExpensiveShockDozenPanic20th CenturyFluResignationRecessionsEpidemicsBuffetsTwo Worlds Author:Warren Buffett
“The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.” MenWorldYearsUseAmericaPoliticalUsedSidesPresidentAttentionInfluenceEconomicPolicyConflictEuropeObligationConfusedDisputesEconomic PolicyAmerican PresidentContendingEntanglement Author:Adolf Hitler
“This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” WorldChildrenWarPresidentPovertyMilitaryThis WorldArmsGeniusConflictScientistSoldierSpendingWar Of The WorldsSweatAntiwarWorld War IVietnam WarWorld War 2Great WarLaborersMake Peace Not WarFree GovernmentArmamentEnding PovertyGovernment SpendingSpending MoneyUs PresidentPeace Not WarJust WarWorld PovertyCost Of WarMilitary SoldierWar On PovertyGlobal PovertyGreatest MilitaryMilitary BudgetPolitics And WarMilitary SpendingWarshipsDefense SpendingPowerful GovernmentMilitary Weapons Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“That's what separates out American democracy from dictators and horrible governments across the world and the reason why that works is that we have a president that can consult with congress before making big decisions. That doesn't just make a unilateral decision to go in for military conflict.” WorldReasonBigsGovernmentPresidentDecisionDemocracyMilitaryConflictCongressIraqHorribleReason WhyDictatorAmerican DemocracyBig Decisions Author:Charles R. Chamberlain
“We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.” ChildrenPresidentTeachConflictWeaponsOur ChildrenPresidentialResolvePatrioticUs PresidentUs PresidentialInspirational Presidential Author:William J. Clinton