“The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesConflictServingPreparingArmed Conflict Author:Michael Mandelbaum
“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
“The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.” PersonsStatesHumanityUnitedResponsibilityPovertyUnited StatesConflictDiseaseCuresLifts Author:Richard Lugar
“We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.” WorldUseJobsAmericaResponsibilityPovertyUnited StatesEnvironmentConflictProsperityPartnersDamageFewerGood JobAdversariesOur EnvironmentShared Responsibility Book:Hard Choices Source: Hard Choices
“This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.” WorldShouldStatesTodayJobsSportsUnitedLeaderUnited StatesTeamConflictStandingTallGood JobWorld TodaySports TeamStanding Tall Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.
“The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses. We haven't resorted to total war every time we have a conflict around the world, because that restraint is what defines us. That restraint is what gives us the moral standing to lead the world.” WorldGivingWarStatesUnitedMoralUnited StatesGroupsHavensConflictStandingThreatResponseCriminalsTerroristAround The WorldRestraintSpyTotal War Author:Edward Snowden
“We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.” BelieveHas BeensStatesGovernmentEarthLawHeavenNationsUnitedUnited StatesGreaterHonestyDivineMoralityExerciseConflictDirectInstitutionsPuritySubmitAbolishBannerPolygamy Author:John Taylor
“I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately served in the United States Army in the years following the Korean conflict.” YearsStatesSchoolNationsChanceUnitedUnited StatesConflictArmyFollowingKoreanUnited States Army Author:Don Young
“The invasion of Iraq was not an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with Iraq that began on August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied Kuwait, which was a major oil supplier to the United States.” StatesNaturalUnitedUnited StatesEventsConflictMajorsIraqOilExtensionsInvasionAugustUnprecedentedKuwaitSuppliers Author:Michael Klare
“I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.” NeedsIdeasStatesAgeUnitedUnited StatesConflictMajorsAgreeRhetoric Author:Bernard-Henri Levy
“I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesStudyInformationConflictPagesHappeningsInstitutionsWingsEnterpriseReportsRight WingInstituteEditorialsHandouts Author:Ishmael Reed
“We've always defined conflict fairly broadly from ideological conflict to troops on the ground. For quite some time we've talked about a focus on Palestine. Certainly no one can deny that Israel is conflict with Palestine and no one can deny that the U.S. is the largest supporter of Israel internationally - not only financially, but also in the United Nations where the United States is one of the very few countries that does not recognize Palestine as a state.” DoeCountryStatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesFocusConflictIsraelDenyDefinedTroopsSupporterPalestineUnited NationsIdeological Author:Jon Rubin
“Well what are our geopolitical objectives? First, that North America be peaceful, prosperous, dominated by the United States. Second, that no nation be able to approach the United States militarily ... Those are the goals. It's very simple. We achieve that by making certain that all conflict takes place in the Eastern Hemisphere so we don't have conflict here.” FirstsWellsStatesAbleAmericaCertainNationsGoalSimpleUnitedUnited StatesAchieveConflictApproachObjectivesPeacefulEasternProsperousNorth AmericaHemisphereGeopolitical Author:George Friedman
“In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.” ThinkingWorldLooksHas BeensWarStatesHappensAmericaUnitedOpinionEnemyUnited StatesConflictCreatingMirrorsAgreeStartingRepeatsWho We AreStrings Author:Norman Lear
“I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including Syria. The second one is not to turn Secretary-General office into a part or branch of the State Department of the United States.” WorldNeedsFirstsTwoStatesTurnsUnitedUnited StatesConflictOfficeIncludingStatementsObjectivesAround The WorldBranchesTwo ThingsDepartmentSecretarySyria Author:Bashar al-Assad
“As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qaida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.” MaySelfMatterStatesUseLawForceUnitedUnited StatesConflictResponseInternationalDefenseConsistentAlsInherentSelf DefenseTalibanInternational LawArmed Conflict Author:John O. Brennan
“The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also possess this technology. Many more nations are seeking it, and more will succeed in acquiring it.” FirstsStatesNationsUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesSucceedConflictSeekingStrikesAircraftArmed Conflict Author:John O. Brennan
“There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.” PeopleStatesGovernmentInterestUnitedUnited StatesConflictProfoundConflict Of Interest Author:Howard Zinn
“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
“Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.” IfsMadeTwoIdeasWarCountryStatesFactsSeemsTogetherLastsAmericaNamesLostUnitedEnemyUnited StatesSuccessfulVictoryConflictConceptsIndianAlliesRecognizingExchangingExchanging Ideas Author:Vine Deloria Jr.
“It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it conflicts, in some people's minds, with their sense of how we all came to be. But you know, if you are a believer in God, it's hard to imagine that God would somehow put this incontrovertible evidence in front of us about our relationship to other living organisms and expect us to disbelieve it. I mean, that doesn't make sense at all.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindMeanHardStatesScienceCertainImaginationUnitedUnited StatesImagineFrontsEvolutionConflictEvidenceAspectBelieverMake SenseImagine ThatOur RelationshipOrganismsLiving OrganismsUneasiness Author:Francis Collins
“We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.” ThinkingWorldFirstsWellsWarStatesHelpingFightingUnitedPovertyUnited StatesViolenceConflictThirdsSolveHorribleOngoingThird WorldHorrificEnding Poverty Author:Martin Sheen
“After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.” WorldWayStatesWholeRealityUnitedUnited StatesConflictWhole WorldFormalProphecyPearlsHarborsDecemberBombingDominanceDecember 7December 7 1941 Author:John Henrik Clarke
“If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.” IfsWorldWayWantMayStatesBigsActionNextEnergyChallengesUnitedUnited StatesIssuesGenerationsConditionsSecurityConflictDeserveTreatsFundamentalsClimateCrowdsTerrorismFuelAppetiteFossilsNext GenerationHeadlinesFossil FuelUneasyRenewable EnergyPersianBig ChallengesPersian GulfEnergy SecurityBold ActionsPersistance Author:Robert Redford