Army Quote by Edward Said

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.The other…

— Edward Said

On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27,…

— Stephen Kinzer

The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is. Every…

— Edward Said

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put…

— Margaret Thatcher

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make…

— Edward Said

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it…

— Edward Said

Candidate Trump held out his hand to Vladimir Putin. He rejected further U.S. intervention in Syria other than to smash ISIS.

— Pat Buchanan

In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed…

— Madeleine Albright

The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than…

— Jeanette Winterson

An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it.

— Margaret Cho