Insurgency Quotes

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

— Michael Scheuer

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

— Dick Cheney

All the way back to Dartmouth, I was part of the insurgency.

— Laura Ingraham

The insurgency began and you missed it.

— REM

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

— Hamid Karzai

Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political…

— Jack Keane

Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.

— Roger Hilsman

Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.

— Nigel Farage

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.

— Noam Chomsky

Our troops shouldn't be mired in taking land for the Afghan military, providing force protection and fighting a permanent insurgency.

— Ro Khanna

We don't know if our economy, our society, could support the social and the human and the economic cost of an insurgency.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

As the insurgency in Iraq started to grow, we realized this is a connected network of individual actors that can move at…

— Chris Fussell

Occupation almost always breeds an insurgency, as the U.S. discovered in the Philippines, and later in Viet Nam.

— John Mearsheimer

I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody,…

— Michael Mullen

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the…

— Richard Engel

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to…

— John Abizaid

The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put…

— Ike Skelton

One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations…

— Malcolm Nance

“Constructive insurgency: Is the use of legal and imaginative means of resistance to reform a system of repression. Generally through the use…

— Anonymous

Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you…

— Bill Ayers

As many have noted, Donald Trump's presidency is an insurgency. Mr. Trump himself is the quintessential insurgent, doing battle with a disingenuous…

— Shelby Steele

I made this bad joke on Twitter saying, "I want to put in my first no-bid contract to train the Libyan army…

— Michael Hastings

And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban -…

— Pete Sessions

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New…

— Richard Phillips

We are facing an enormous crisis in Africa right now in terms of illegal wildlife trafficking, which is decimating animal populations, destroying…

— David Jeremiah Barron

“So the insurgency was born in a perfect storm of American errors--not establishing order; not providing the semblance of any government; confirming…

— Peter Bergen

I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the…

— Cornel West

“Military operations alone cannot defeat an insurgency because only economic development and political action can address most sources of disaffection. If military…

— H.R. McMaster

There's just no question that the United States was trying desperately to prevent the independence of South Vietnam and to prevent a…

— Noam Chomsky

“The government of Pakistan is yet to understand that the insurgency is not the disease but the symptoms of the disease. If…

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and…

— James G. Stavridis

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

— Anthony H. Cordesman

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.

— Stuart Bowen

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

— Jan Schakowsky

The country [Afghanistan] faces enormous problems. There is a violent insurgency hampering the rule of law and developmental efforts.

— Khaled Hosseini

By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind,…

— Jack Keane

The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

— Meles Zenawi

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

Counter-insurgency warfare is not a simple thing... it's not as simple as, like, good guys versus bad guys. It is a mess.

— Chelsea Manning

I don't know how you defeat an insurgency unless you have some handle on the number of people that you are facing.

— John McCain