Country Quote by Juan Cole Download Open image “Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.” — Juan Cole ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Country Tricky
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The one thing more difficult than following a regime is keeping from imposing it on others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To manage another country? No, I wouldn't. That's not something I would consider. — Chris Coleman Copy Share Image
A country isn't sovereign if we can't control who comes in and who's allowed to come in. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. — Honore Gabriel Riquet Copy Share Image
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research. — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image