Counter Insurgency Quotes

#1. But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. U.S. national security, as preached by U.S. leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people.

Philip Agee

#2. But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

John Abizaid

#3. You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.

James G. Stavridis

#4. The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.

Meles Zenawi

#5. She finds Snickers bars in the strangest places.
(She knows it's from him.)
(She wonders if they're laced with pot.)

Lisa McMann

#6. No," I said, answering the last question Liam had asked me. " A lie told out of love isn't the worst thing.

Juliet Dark

#7. Left his great-grandfather to face the hot barren desert. The Warden had left Stanley to face Mr. Sir. Somehow his great-grandfather

Louis Sachar

#8. Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

Rudolf Steiner

#9. I hate being right all the time. So,

Susan Ee

#10. I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#11. We sin from a place of emptiness. We sin from a place of wanting to be filled up. The search for meaning drives many of our decisions, and ultimately it's the driving factor in our search for breathing room.

Josh Reich

#12. Smile. Be open and welcoming.

Ephraim Buchwald

#13. Health is the core of human development.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#14. Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

David Byrne

#15. We never did see a shooting star, but it didn't matter to me one bit. Before the night was over I said, this is one of my top moments. He said mine too.

Jenny Han

#16. No one could have prepared for me BBQ on pizza. I mean, both are great. But together? It was incredible.

Pau Gasol

#17. We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

Dorothy Height