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Suddenly it looks like the policy is not tough diplomacy, but the path to war.


Jon Alterman

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MARK TWAIN It looks like a war zone.
CARL GRIFFITH It looks like a war zone.
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JACK COLE Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
ZHOU EN LAI When diplomacy ends, War begins.
ADOLF HITLER It looks horrible inside. It looks like a war zone. It's a complete mess.
BOBBI BROWN It was a path that looks just about like the worst areas in New Orleans.
ED SHIELDS All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
CHOU EN-LAI He talked about toughness - about how tough the GCL is and how tough Cincinnati football is. What a ...
DAN STARKEY This is not like U.N. or formal diplomacy.
BILL RICHARDSON If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
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MIKE JENSEN So it looks like a war zone right now.
JANE MEYER Downtown Clarksville looks like the proverbial war zone.
KURT PICKERING All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
TONY BENN All war represents a failure of diplomacy
TONY BENN That's what it looks like. We have to prove it now; that's going to be the tough part.
BRUCE DAVIDSON I think it is not easy to impress a girl, especially with the looks that I have. It is quite tough.
DHANUSH It looks tough. But if any team can come back, this is the team that can.
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ROY ADZAK [Modern diplomacy] is myopic, simplistic, based on violence and just going to lead to more war.
DOUGLAS NOLL This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.
TOM DASCHLE saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war.
TOM DASCHLE The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER It looks like a bombed-out building from World War II,
BOBBY WELCH War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and...
DAVID MAMET War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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ALFRED BESTER My nightmare is to follow the path of France and Germany in socioeconomic policy.
JAN ROKITA Sometimes you like to keep stuff bottled up, but that is not the best policy.
AIREEN C. PONTILLO Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.
KELLY ROWLAND Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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CYNTHIA P. SCHNEIDER History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.
ENOCH POWELL If you would have seen it before and to see it now - it looks like a war zone.
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MICHAEL OREN Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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WILL ROGERS Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
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GARY F EVANS... The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
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E. V. LUCAS I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
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JON MEACHAM We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve...
JON BATISTE It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ...
JON MEACHAM If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for...
JON FAVREAU We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d...
JON STEWART An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje...
JON MEACHAM Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood...
JON KYL I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ...
JON JOHANSEN I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w...
JON ANDERSON Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ...
JON FOREMAN I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a ...
JON RONSON