Appeasement Quote by James Baker Download Open image “It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.” — James Baker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appeasement Enemy
Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous. — George Allen Copy Share Image
It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn… — Meles Zenawi Copy Share Image
The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
That's my attitude on the military. I don't like telling the enemy what I'm doing. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I… — James Baker Copy Share Image
“My view is that you don't just talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies, as well. And the diplomacy involves talking to… — James Baker Copy Share Image
Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never. — James Baker Copy Share Image
Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. — James Baker Copy Share Image
This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of… — James Baker Copy Share Image
I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins. — James Baker Copy Share Image
When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem… — James Baker Copy Share Image
WE MADE A MONSTER OF HITLER, A DEVIL. THAT IS WHY (THEREFORE) WE COULD NOT AFTER THE WAR SAY OTHERWISE. WE HAD PERSONALLY MOBILISED… — James Baker Copy Share Image
You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president — James Baker Copy Share Image
If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both… — John Stott Copy Share Image
May I just single out for salutations, on the "anti-war" side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
