#territory

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#army #created #fight #first #five

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#borders #boundaries #come #global #here

The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected. ↗

— John Culberson

#because #border #elected #emergency #know

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. ↗

— Brian Eno

#best work #completely #do your best #fascinated #i

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. ↗

— Brian Eno

#certain #context #define #edges #found

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#been #borders #century #convergence #customs

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apartheid #been #conditions #experienced #housing

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#been #break #gets #ground #harder

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#backwards #became #century #command #companion

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#distinguishes #familiar #familiar territory #fight #objectives