Joe Lieberman Quotes

When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was on the line. I was dismayed by the wide opposition among my fellow Democrats. To me, their position was wrong.

Joe Lieberman

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• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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  • War
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• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

  

  Karl Rove
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• When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
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• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
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• Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

  

  Dan Rather
  • Dance
  • Going
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• Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Good
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• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
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• Democrats hate success.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
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• What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • More
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• You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Know
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• There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • America
  • Know
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• I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • America
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• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
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  • Leadership

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
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• The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • War
  • History
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• When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Lost
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• Fans are very emotional people, and when they have seen you with some people and they like your chemistry, they expect you to work with the same person again.

  

  Kratika Sengar
  • People
  • Work
  • Emotional

• An actor said recently that, unless you're a parent, you shouldn't play a parent in a film. I don't know who said it, but I disagree. I understand that maybe there are aspects that you don't understand, or maybe this actor or actress had a really strong recent experience with having their first or second or third born child. I don't know. As a dad, I get that. I get that there is no love like it. But, at the same time, love is love.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Strong

• When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was on the line. I was dismayed by the wide opposition among my fellow Democrats. To me, their position was wrong.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • America
  • War
  • Leadership