Michael Mullen Quotes

As we have 250,000 Syrians murdered, slaughtered; millions running around the world, running for their lives. It's not working. We need to try something else. And that is not reckless.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

Like a nuclear disaster, the fallout from the meltdown of Syria threatens to be with us for decades, and the longer it is permitted to continue, the more severe the damage will be.

In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees.

We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.

Syria has become the great tragedy of the century—a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

Syria: It’s a messy civil war and we should not be involved in it.

Just when we think it cannot get any worse, the bar of [Syrian] depravity sinks lower.

The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.

It was wrenching to read about the brutality of Assad every morning, to see images of family homes reduced to rubble. I felt we had to do something in Syria.

The deplorable Syrian refugee crisis was created because Syrian President Bashar al-Assad started a war on his people, and the international community refused to confront him.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.

The security agencies are prosecuting the government’s war in Darfur.

Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.

Do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

The refugee crisis shows we can't be isolated from the world's geopolitical troubles.

We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.

On the campaign trail, candidate Trump occasionally raised the idea of creating 'safe zones' for Syrian civilians.

It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution.

I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.

Why is Assad more responsible for all the deaths in Syria than those fighting to overthrow and kill him?