Coalitions Quotes

• In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. We have got to have officers who can create harmony across all those lines.

  James Mattis

  Military, Home, Enemy

  James Mattis' speech at the US Joint Forces Command Conference, May 2010.

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• Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Names, Conspiracy

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “The Widow's Son”, Roc

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• You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

  John Engler

  Work, Winning, Decision

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• If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Enough, Broads, Comfortable

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• The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.

  Hillary Clinton

  Issues, Trying, Building

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• Change masters are - literally - the right people in the right place at the right time. The right people are the ones with the ideas that move beyond the organization's established practice, ideas they can form into visions. The right places are the integrative environments that support innovation, encourage the building of coalitions and teams to support and implement visions. The right times are those moments in the flow of organizational history when it is possible to reconstruct reality on the basis on accumulated innovations to shape a more productive and successful future.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Team, Moving, Successful

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than he is in a tightly organized group.

  John C. Lilly

  Wise, Intelligent, Groups

  John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”

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• Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Running, Country, Party

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• Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Successful, Triumph, Alliances

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

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• I think it's very important to always make sure that you're talking to the entire coalition and to as many Americans as possible; not to go chasing after one little group or another. The Democrats would bring new groups into their party and not notice that larger groups are going out the back door.

  Grover Norquist

  Party, Thinking, Doors

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• I'm a part of the no-tight-jeans coalition.

  Ludacris

  Jeans, Tight Jeans

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• I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

  Vince Cable

  Believe, Government, Roles

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• Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

  Frances O'Grady

  Cutting, Mps, East

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• One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

  Shimon Peres

  Iran, Russia, Want

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• Any coalition has its troubles, as every married man knows.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Men, Married, Trouble

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• We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

  Manmohan Singh

  Government, Way, Limits

  Interview with Rajat Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. August 16, 2005.

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• The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Animal, Law

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• I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers.

  Lynndie England

  Apology, America, Soldier

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• The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

  Charles M. Vest

  Science, Groups, Mit

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq

  Barbara Mikulski

  War, Responsibility, Iraq

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• I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

  Juan Cole

  Pigs, Use, Administration

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• No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Abet, Bihar, Terrorism

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Organization, June, Proud

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• Since September 11, 2001, the powerful coalition of nations, led by the United States, has seen many successes against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. It is imperative that we remain united and steadfast in the quest to defeat terrorism around the world.

  Kenny Marchant

  Powerful, September 11, Terrorist Groups

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• We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

  Michael K. Simpson

  News Stories, Iraq, Allies

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