Barack Obama Quotes

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

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• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • War
  • Civil War

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

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

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

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Action
  • Wise

• Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Guy

• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • War
  • Moment
  • Possible

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Men
  • War
  • Nature

• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • War
  • Wrong
  • Horrible

• It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • War
  • Got
  • Vietnam

• 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
  • War
  • Purpose

• Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • War
  • Understand

• Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Work
  • Job
  • War

• The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Power
  • War
  • Pretty

• I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Serious

• If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Want
  • You
  • Serious

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

  

  Arne Glimcher
  • World
  • Art
  • America

• Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.

  

  Raymond Kelly
  • War
  • Hate
  • Enemy

• I think what has allowed me to be successful is that I can absorb more information than most and drill down to the key business elements of that information and make faster decisions. And of course, I truly try to enjoy every minute of my life. I can never understand why anyone wouldn't.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Life
  • Why
  • Business

• Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

  

  John Prescott
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Suffering

• I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Serious
  • Damage