International Quotes - Page 30

Enabling people to make and receive phone calls during flight demonstrated the flexibility of a high-speed connectivity system. We allowed our guests to make calls to the ground while we flew over international waters.

Christopher Peterson

Phones, People, Water

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Our diplomacy ended up giving a bad conscience to an international community capable only of expressing noble sentiments while doing nothing, .. So how can one explain that we are today investigating an action our country should be proud of?.

Alain Juppe

Country, Giving, Community

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Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.

Cynthia McKinney

Children, Military, War

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What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.

Cynthia McKinney

Emotional, Israel, Attachment

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This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.

David Garrett

Culture, Baylor, Students

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Delta's plan to upgrade JFK facilities will improve our customers' travel experience and make it more efficient and enjoyable to travel through one of the world's premier international gateways. Our customers should make no mistake that Delta is committed to New York and that this summer's expansion at JFK is an important step in offering enhanced service to customers in most every direction we serve from New York City.

Jim Whitehurst

Summer, New York, Mistake

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I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

Robbie Savage

Family, Football, Careers

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The international community must make pressure on Israel to recognize our right to get freedom, to fight against occupation, to have real peace, legitimacy on our ground. If the international community obliged Israel to do that, then they can come to us and ask us to take our step.

Khaled Mashal

Real, Fighting, Israel

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The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.

Khaled Mashal

Responsibility, People, Community

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I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Khaled Mashal

Community, Israeli Occupation, Want

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International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power, Shapes, Politics

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A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation - knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America's will for peace is second to none, so will America's strength be second to none. We cannot rely on the forbearance of others to protect this Nation. The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.

Gerald R. Ford

Strong, Peace, War

Gerald R. Ford's address to a joint session of Congress, August 12, 1974.

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The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.

John C. Stennis

Promise, Navy, World

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...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration...The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Country, Responsibility, Presidential

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These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.

Theodore Roosevelt

Powerful, Government, Oil

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During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

George W. Norris

War, Agreement, Civilized Nations

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In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

Theodore Roosevelt

Exercise, Power, Police

Annual Message to Congress, 6 Dec. 1904. Known as the "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine

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Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we participate....Despite all the heavy problems- domestic and international- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.

Gerald R. Ford

Humor, Keys, Democracy

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Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran.

John C. Stennis

Iran, Community, Navigation

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Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

Boris Trajkovski

Confidence, Community, Identity

"Man of Vision: Interview with the President Of the Republic of Macedonia Mr. Boris Trajkovski". "Macedonia: A Nation at a Crossroads" by Sam Vaknin, February 12, 2009.

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First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

George W. Norris

War, Rights, Law

George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.194, U of Nebraska Press

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DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.

Alvin Ailey

Book, Texas, Creating

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I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.

Will Rogers

Business, Race, Two

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.

Gerald R. Ford

Water, Diversity, Citizens

United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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... The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it.

Mike Harding

Humorous, Race, Play

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