Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Quotes

The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.

Suddenly in a matter of months there were more than 100 thousand Boxers in the capital, from ordinary people to soldiers to princes and grandees … The capital would be plunged into unthinkable peril if I tried to use the army to crush them. I have to go along with them and salvage the situation somehow...

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots.

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.