#operation

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#accepted #because #been #considered #country

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. ↗

— William Godwin

#artillery #civil #civil liberty #consequence #follows

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#i #operation #remove #tumor #went

The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#did #europeans #hamas #launch #list

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face. ↗

— Eric Holder

#among #any #become #citizen #decision

Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations. ↗

— Duncan Hunter

#force #matures #military #military force #military operations

The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#asian countries #cooperation #countries #great #other

Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible. ↗

— George Tenet

#antipathy #between #contacts #cooperation #divergent

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#better #case #cooperation #done #idea

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#constant #good #important #just #major