Haider al-Abadi Quotes

We can make sacrifices to fight Islamic State, but the international coalition has to support us.

Haider al-Abadi

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• Even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Choice
  • Alive

• A lot of chefs in restaurants, when they create their tasting menus, don't seem to consider that. They're trying to impress with too many rich items.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Trying
  • Restaurants
  • Chefs

• I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Believe

• Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Justice
  • Interest

• Without error, there is no brilliancy.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Error

• I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.

  

  Richard Price
  • Relationship
  • Classroom
  • Descend

• cries I just want my friend back!

  

  Jack Black
  • Friend

• The other thing is going to be me being able to show not just the American people or the Israeli people but the world that, in fact, we have mechanisms in place that will prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • American

• California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • People
  • Risk
  • Vision

• If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Price
  • Tax
  • Carbon

• I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films; I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.

  

  Julia Garner
  • Think
  • Films
  • Expect

• We will keep pounding ISIL and taking out their leaders, and pushing them back on the ground. And united with a global coalition, we will destroy this barbaric terrorist group. They will be destroyed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Destroy
  • Leaders
  • Ground

• By the middle of the month, you'll really see a beginning of a nucleus of an Iraqi government with an Iraqi face on it that is dealing with the coalition.

  

  Jay Garner
  • Government
  • Dealing
  • Coalition

• There are hundreds and hundreds of followers of Islamic State around Europe and the U.S. The Saudis are showing this. And all you have to do is look at the conversation inside of our mosques and inside of our communities.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Europe
  • Followers
  • Islamic State

• Advanced ticket sales have been terrific but we've also found that on the day of the show twice as many people are just walking up (to buy tickets). Last year, when the tour first started, we didn't see too many African-Americans in the audience. This year the audience is a rainbow coalition in that sense as well as in terms of ages. The audience ages are all over the map. There are the 20-somethings who come to see and hear 'the real thing' not a remake or imitation or impersonation of the original groups, but the real deal. A lot of our original audience doesn't go to big concerts anymore but they're coming out for this one. It's one last party.

  

  Robert Lamm Chicago
  • Audience
  • Buy
  • Coming

• Something that is interesting about the current polling is that, as you watch Hillary's Clinton numbers fluctuate, part of the reason that they are is because the Obama coalition, younger voters, African-American voters, Latino voters, they're not showing up in as large a number for her as they did for President Barack Obama.

  

  Bill Burton
  • Interesting
  • President
  • Voters

• Terrorism and trade cannot be the only issues on which the world unites. We must commit ourselves to a global coalition to deal with exclusion, too.

  

  Noreena Hertz
  • Issues
  • Trade
  • Terrorism

• We can make sacrifices to fight Islamic State, but the international coalition has to support us.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Coalition
  • Islamic State