Libya Quotes - Page 6

• The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is clear that Iran is cynically manipulating gullible (or equally cynical) Europeans to advance its development of weapons of mass destruction.

  John Bolton

  Mass Destruction, Iran, Cynical

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• The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Egypt, Iran

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini, and our friends in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran would gradually have been brought down. His efforts would have spread westwards, and Libya and North Africa would have been brought under his control.

  Anthony Eden

  Iran, Iraq, Effort

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• Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.

  Plato

  Country, Blow, Men

  Plato (2012). “Gorgias and Timaeus”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• We put our fingers in the eyes of those who doubt that Libya is ruled by anyone other than its people.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Eye, People, Doubt

  "Muammar Gaddafi offers rebels an amnesty" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2011.

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• The international community would like to see an agreement in Libya before Ramadan, let me be very cautious about the possibilities for an agreement.

  Bernardino Leon

  Agreement, Community, Ramadan

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• An institution that...would permit Iraq, a terrorist state that refuses to disarm, to become soon the chair of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament, and which recently elected Libya - a terrorist state - to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights of all things, seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility. That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Struggle, Rights

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• The reality is that [Barack] Obama has some 15 countries in the current Libya coalition. President Bush put together close to 50 countries for the Afghan coalition, some 40 countries for the Iraqi coalition, more than 90 countries for the Proliferation Security Initiative and over 90 countries in the Global War on Terror.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Reality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• This comes from a group of people who`ve been wrong about every foreign policy issue over the last two decades. They supported Hillary Clinton`s war in Libya. They supported President [Barack] Obama`s bombing of Assad.

  Barack Obama

  War, Two, Issues

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Let's go back to the beginning of the Obama administration, when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama led NATO in toppling the government in Libya. They did it because they wanted to promote democracy. A number of Republicans supported them. Well, the result is, Libya is now a terrorist war zone run by jihadists.

  Ted Cruz

  Running, War, Government

  5th Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I do not honestly know what is really happening in Libya at the moment but it must be very hard for Gaddafi and his family.

  El Hadji Diouf

  Gaddafi, Moments, Honestly

  "Football transfer rumours: Arsenal to bid farewell to Emmanuel Eboué?" by Barney Ronay, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2011.

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• I'm only interested in Libya if we keep the oil. If we don't keep the oil, I'm not interested.

  Donald Trump

  Oil, Not Interested, Ifs

  "Donald Trump on a Potential Presidential Run". "NBC Today Show" with Meredith Vieira, archives.nbclearn.com. April 7, 2011.

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• Senator Lugar will also travel to Libya for official meetings as a part of the president's initiative to move toward more normal relations reflecting that country's renunciation of terrorism and abandonment of its weapons of mass destruction and longer range missiles.

  Dana Perino

  Country, Moving, Mass Destruction

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• Today, the government of a free Afghanistan is fighting terror, Pakistan is capturing terrorist leaders, Saudi Arabia is making raids and arrests, Libya is dismantling its weapons programs, the army of a free Iraq is fighting for freedom, and more than three-quarters of al-Qaida's key members and associates have been detained or killed. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer.

  George W. Bush

  Army, Fighting, Government

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.

  Plutarch

  Europe, Triumph, Three

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives -”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Foreign policy commands attention when it's crisis management. A street revolt breaks out in Egypt or Libya or Kiev and everyone asks, how should the president respond? Now these are important parts of America's role in the world, but they are essentially reactive and tactical. The broader challenge is to lay down a longer-term strategy that endures after the crisis of the moment.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Egypt, America, Challenges

  "Fareed Zakaria GPS", www.cnn.com. April 27, 2014.

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• You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don't have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express this and lead to revolution.

  Eric Schmidt

  Spring, Government, People

  "Google's Big Tent event: porn, copyright, Eric Schmidt and all". www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.

  Ilana Mercer

  War, Mind, Awakening

  "Libya: a War of the Womb". www.wnd.com. April 08, 2011.

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• Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Mass Destruction, Example

  "Diplomatic License", www.cnn.com. May 16, 2004.

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• I would like to extend to you our deep appreciation and thanks for the position the United States has taken in support of the democratization process that has taken place in Tunisia, in Egypt, and what is attempting to take place in Libya.

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

  Appreciation, Taken, Egypt

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• Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

  Elliott Abrams

  Country, War, World

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• At the time, we were mad at Moammar Gadhafi, which resulted in us bombing all over Libya and killing a bunch of people, but not him. Then Ronald Reagan gets up and says we're not trying to kill him, we're just dropping bombs. You can kill all the Libyans you want, but legally you can't try to kill the leader.

  Dave Barry

  Mad, People, Leader

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• We understand that ISIS is a group that's growing in its governance of territory. It's not just Iraq and Syria. They are now a predominant group in Libya. They are beginning to pop up in Afghanistan. They are increasingly involved now in attacks in Yemen. They have Jordan in their sights. This group needs to be confronted with serious proposals.

  Marco Rubio

  Sight, Isis, Iraq

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.

  Rand Paul

  Mistake, Thinking, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.

  Lynsey Addario

  War, Fighting, Sacrifice

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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