“The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.” PeopleWayHumansEndsStatesDoneReligiousUnitedRolesUnited StatesStreetsDignityThirdsDefeatPeacefulIdeologyProtestIranAlsDictatorshipSyriaEgyptReligious FaithAl QaedaHuman DignityLibyaPeaceful ProtestTunisia Author:Reza Aslan
“Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesResponseDefeatRussiaSocialismSovietMenace Author:Frank Chodorov
“To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” PeopleMayStatesGovernmentWould BeUnitedUnited StatesObjectsConstitutionPoliceDefeatCongressAccomplishOperationsAmendmentsReservedDeclaringPolice Power Author:Melville Fuller
“I renew my call for the occupier (the United States) to leave our land. The departure of the occupier will mean stability for Iraq, victory for Islam and peace and defeat for terrorism and infidels.” MeanStatesUnitedUnited StatesLandVictoryIslamDefeatIraqTerrorismStabilityDepartureInfidel Author:Muqtada al Sadr
“Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat.” StatesWould BeUnitedResultsUnited StatesDefeatIraqDefinitionsDefeatedHumiliationHumiliatedWithdrawal Author:Howard Dean
“Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat. I don't think there's any other way to argue it. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is a separate question.” ThinkingWayStatesWould BeUnitedResultsUnited StatesGood ThingsDefeatIraqDefinitionsArguingBad ThingsDefeatedHumiliationHumiliatedWithdrawal Author:Tucker Carlson
“We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to kill four million Americans,... For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again.” YearsFirstsHas BeensSaidWarHardStatesHomeAbleFightingUnitedEnemyMillionsUnited StatesFourSixDefeatTerrorGuaranteesAlsAl QaedaWar On TerrorGuarantees That Author:Dick Cheney
“The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.” WarCountryStatesDifficultUnitedUnited StatesDefeatPatternsCombatVietnamInterventionSanctuaryEvasionGuerrillasPenetration Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski