Cambodia Quotes - Page 2

• We took a family trip to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia over Christmas and New Year's. Three weeks was a long time, but it was cool, man. We were on the ocean, so that was kind of intense. After a couple of days you realize how far out you are.

  Prince Fielder

  New Year, Couple, Ocean

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war, but if Kerry tells them exotic tales of covert missions into Cambodia directed by Richard Nixon, they don't even bother to fact-check who was president in December 1968.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Media, President

  "Ballad Of The French Berets". www.anncoulter.com. August 18, 2004.

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• [Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Moving, Order, Campaigns

  December 09, 1970 Phone call with Gen. Alexander Haig, quoted in National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 123,

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• Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Years, Long, Bosnia

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• Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?

  Gerald R. Ford

  War, President, Aids

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it usually end up turning it into something like Cambodia or something very similar because purity tests set in. Are you ideologically pure enough to be allowed to live? Well, it turns out that very few people are, so you end up with a big powerful struggle and a mass killing scene.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, Struggle, Believe

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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• Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

  William Kunstler

  Country, Years, Numbers

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• From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.

  Sophal Ear

  Motivation, War, Inspiration

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• If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.

  Wallace Shawn

  Years, Giving, Effort

  Wallace Shawn (1985). “Aunt Dan and Lemon: A Play”, p.92, Grove Press

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• If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.

  Alan Lightman

  Running, Teaching, Organization

  ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012.

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• John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Organization, Asia, East

  Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Wilfred G. Burchett (1973). “My war with the CIA: Cambodia's fight for survival”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I was really blown away and inspired by everything that she [Audrey Hepburn] had done for children via and through UNICEF and I guess it really, really floored me in a way that I hadn't ever felt toward a public figure before. To see her kindness was inspiring and spoke to me as a person. She was so real and so elegant..I am also inspired by what Angelina Jolie is doing by traveling to places like Cambodia to help children by actually being there and being more involved.

  Liv Tyler

  Kindness, Children, Real

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• I would hate to have "Holiday in Cambodia" become as tiresome to other people as hearing "Like a Rock" in a Chevrolet commercial.

  Jello Biafra

  Hate, Holiday, Rocks

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• I don't want to be like, yes, I think the American answer is always stupid, or I think it's always the right answer. So I'm in this weird place there. I'm feeling it out. Cambodia is going through an enormous amount of change right now. Daily.

  Anne Elizabeth Moore

  Stupid, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So lesbianism is actually perceived as being threatening to a degree that it would have not been, for example, under socialist East Germany. But it's one of the essential issues of women's freedom: Do you get to do want you want to do with your body? Not if you don't know what your body is for.

  Anne Elizabeth Moore

  East Germany, Play, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975.

  Pol Pot

  Struggle, Satisfied, One Thing

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

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• Nixon at one point informs Kissinger . . . that he wanted bombing of Cambodia. And Kissinger loyally transmits the order to the Pentagon to carry out a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves . . . genocide.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Order, Campaigns

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• You know the John Lennon song 'Imagine'? 'Imagine no possessions, no religion'? That's what it was like in Cambodia. The only thing people had was a spoon, for eating the daily pourridge. And that pourridge was grossly insufficient for the work they were made to do in the fields.

  Sophal Ear

  Song, People, Spoons

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• For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].

  Angelina Jolie

  Risk, Kind, Humanitarian

  Interview with Jenny Lange, www.unhcr.org. October 21, 2002.

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• There's what we did wrong and what we did right. The mistake is that we did some things against the people - by us and also by the enemy - but the other side, as I told you, is that without our struggle there would be no Cambodia right now.

  Pol Pot

  Mistake, Struggle, People

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

  Winston Churchill

  Eight, Years, Arrogance

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• There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Sex, Organization, Support

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

  George Galloway

  War, Blood, Hands

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• Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

  Pico Iyer

  Angel, Thinking, Cities

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.84, Vintage

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• I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

  Emma Bonino

  Issues, Different, Way

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