Alex Gibney Quotes

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

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• During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.

  

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

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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  • Wise

• 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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• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
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• 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
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• We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • War
  • Human
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• The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • World
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• We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
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• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
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• The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
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  • Never
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• Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

  

  Eamon de Valera
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• A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

  

  Ralph Peters
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• I have this really big face.

  

  Adam Driver
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• When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Terror
  • Afghanistan

• The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Work
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  • War

• One of the most important things the United States did in the aftermath of World War II was to help returning veterans with housing. In 1945, in my home state of Oregon, we established the Veterans Home Loan Program, which for over 60 years has provided more than 300,000 loans. This has changed the lives of Oregon veterans and revitalized communities.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • World
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• War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • War

• The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Power
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• Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.

  

  Juan Diego Florez
  • Change
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• For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

  

  Alex Gibney
  • War
  • Military
  • Guilty