Coalitions Quotes - Page 9

• After the end of the cold war, everybody thought, fantastic, finally the UN may be able to do what it was originally set up to do without big power divisions. It would be easy to get them to come together to resolve things. You will recall, on the first Gulf war, you almost got a unanimous resolution and a very solid coalition.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Together, May

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• Let me just say you could end this violence within a very short period of time, have a complete ceasefire - which Iran could control, which Russia could control, which Syria could control, and which we and our coalition friends could control - if one man would merely make it known to the world that he doesn't have to be part of the long-term future; he'll help manage Syria out of this mess and then go off into the sunset, as most people do after a period of public life. If he were to do that, then you could stop the violence and quickly move to management.

  John F. Kerry

  Moving, Sunset, Men

  "Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

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• All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Killing, Innocent

  Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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• Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.

  Bayard Rustin

  Gay, People, Black

  Source: kalamu.com

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• If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.

  Van Jones

  People, Faults, Attractive

  Source: pen.org

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• As regards Hillary C;inton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players in the military-industrial complex, I feel that she would be no better an actor on the world stage than Trump and whatever coalition of managers he might cobble together.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Powerful, Military, Player

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think in theory, the United States finds it much easier to deal with situations where there is a leading country. You can go to the leaders of that country and say, for example, to India, "There are all these problems in Bangladesh, we really have to do something about it, what do you suggest we can do to work out a common policy?" But when you don't have the equivalent of India, you have to go capital to capital trying to put together a coalition, which is extraordinarily difficult, especially in the Arab world, because of the historic rivalries and branches of Islam.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Thinking, Work Out

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure.

  Barack Obama

  Isil, Pressure, Terrorist

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• I don't know where [Osama bin Laden] is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, to be honest with you. I'm more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well supplied, that the strategy is clear, that the coalition is strong.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Soldier, Honest

  Source: www.today.com

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• The Coalition's message of jobs and growth is resonating very, very strongly in North and Central Queensland and one thing they're particularly fearful of is the possibility of a Green-Labor government, a government in which the Green tail wags the Labor dog.

  George Brandis

  Dog, Jobs, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• That was an extremely unhelpful thing for Bill Shorten to say because those of us - and as the Attorney-General I've been closely involved in this along with my colleague Nigel Scullion, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs - what we have been trying to do for some years now, throughout the life of the Coalition Government in fact, is to bring the Australian people on a journey with us - conservative Australians as well as more progressive Australians, to persuade them that it is a seemly and fitting and decent and appropriate thing to recognise the first Australians in the Constitution.

  George Brandis

  Journey, Years, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Progress in Iraq has always been about teams of people and teams of teams - and ultimately about young men and women, Iraqi as well as people from the coalition.

  David Petraeus

  Team, Men, Iraq

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• The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

  Salman Rushdie

  Christian, Ideas, Might

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.com. August/September 2005.

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• The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now.

  John Podhoretz

  Winning, White, Presidential

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• In the eighties, we asked for international coalition against terrorism after the Muslim Brotherhood crisis in Syria when they started killing, of course they were defeated at that time. We asked for the same thing. So, this is a long-term policy that we base our policy on for years now.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Years, Long, Brotherhood

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government through the current challenges, every day, and in every part of Britain.

  Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

  Government, Support, Challenges

  "The civil service is not full of fat cats" by Gus O'Donnell, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2010.

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• The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day.

  Argus Hamilton

  Virginia, Mind, Pork

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• If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.

  Adam Gollner

  Military, Cancer, Men

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• The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.

  G. William Domhoff

  Real, Land, Ideas

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• House GOP Leader John Boehner on Monday rightly sounded the alarm over billions in stimulus tax dollars that could potentially go to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). But the Republican leadership has only scratched the surface over what amounts to a bottomless slush fund for a bigger coalition of housing entitlement thugs.

  Michelle Malkin

  Monday, Thug, Organization

  "Stimulus Slush Fund for Entitlement Thugs" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 30, 2009.

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• Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mean, Scumbags, Critical

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• Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Needs, Doing Nothing

  "Jeb calls Obama comment linking climate change to terrorism 'perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard'". www.dailymail.co.uk. November 25, 2015.

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• Russia went into Syria basically to support President Bashar al-Assad. And the Western allies have said Russia's really done very little against ISIS. For his part, Putin said Russia's open to stronger cooperation, and he supports Frances's effort to build a strong anti-terror coalition.

  Corey Flintoff

  Strong, Russia, Isis

  "Between France And Russia, Presidents Seek Common Ground In Syria". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 26, 2015.

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• [Francois] Hollande said the United States and Russia should join forces. And his words specifically were to fight this terrorist army in a broad single coalition.

  Corey Flintoff

  Fighting, Army, Russia

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If we want to defeat Islamic State, we first have to arrive at a cease-fire agreement in Syria. Once that has been achieved, an anti-IS coalition can be assembled, including Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran. That, however, will be significantly more difficult in the wake of Turkey's downing of the Russian plane.

  Martin Schulz

  Islamic, Fire, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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