Alexander Haig Quotes
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You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
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What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.
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It's going to take an extra effort on the part of the United States that can't just afford to be unconcerned about the situation.
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When the Shah found himself in trouble, we quite literally stabbed him in the back.
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As of now, I am in control here in the White House.
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Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.
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Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.
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Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.
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It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
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There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion.
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Until he left office, that man was in control. He was distraught. He was in a personal crisis of unprecedented magnitude -- all he ever wanted was to be president. But of all the presidents I have known, he was the most thoughtful.
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More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.
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I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.
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It appears to me we haven't learned very much.
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Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
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Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
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There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.
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I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.
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In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.