The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.
I have resolved to return the destiny of our country to our soldiers.
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.
If you go into a country, then you’re going to have to do something about it, and that is hard–harder than invading.
It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.
The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.
These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable.
When you get back control of your country, you get proper democracy. You get back proper debate.
The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who we are? Are we happy to be just a star on somebody else's flag, or do we want to be an independent nation?
This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain free, and we can live in security.
The sooner the Iraqi people are able to take their country's destiny in their own hands and establish their own control over it and its national resources, the sooner the process of pushing the forces of international terrorism out of Iraq will be able to begin. And the sooner the process of consolidating Iraqi society itself will also be able to begin.
What I'm in favor of is making sure we have security for our country and we can control access to our country.
The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe. The matter of who governs the people of South Africa is in the hands of the people of South Africa.
Vladimir Putin is really very much of a leader. I mean, you can say, oh, isn't that a terrible thing - the man has very strong control over a country.
Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.
These days, the manufacturing is controlled by a small number of countries, primarily Taiwan and South Korea.
If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.
