Alexander Haig quote: "We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare."

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood...
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If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the globa...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough...
ALEXANDER HAIG

As of now, I am in control here in the White House.
ALEXANDER HAIG

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous d...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derriere than any other candidate- that's political scar tis...
ALEXANDER HAIG

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.
ALEXANDER HAIG

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negat...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchil...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the g...
ALEXANDER HAIG

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and fru...
ALEXANDER HAIG

It appears to me we haven't learned very much.
ALEXANDER HAIG

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
ALEXANDER HAIG

Until he left office, that man was in control. He was distraught. He was in a personal crisis of unp...
ALEXANDER HAIG

And the reason was that there would be a right-wing uprising in America, which would keep the Democr...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Every asset of the nation must be applied to the conflict to bring about a quick and successful outc...
ALEXANDER HAIG

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment...
ALEXANDER HAIG

There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion.
ALEXANDER HAIG

When the Shah found himself in trouble, we quite literally stabbed him in the back.
ALEXANDER HAIG

What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizin...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following th...
ALEXANDER HAIG

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.
ALEXANDER HAIG

It's going to take an extra effort on the part of the United States that can't just afford to be unc...
ALEXANDER HAIG

[Haig told Perot that] the Christmas effort to send mail to U.S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam c...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army... an officer of i...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferen...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to...
ALEXANDER HAIG

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bl...
ALEXANDER HAIG

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure o...
ALEXANDER HAIG

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.
ALEXANDER HAIG

I wasn't happy with the outcome in Vietnam. Now, I've never said that, but, you know, I'...
ALEXANDER HAIG

It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to th...
ALEXANDER HAIG

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They ...
ALEXANDER HAIG

We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.
ALEXANDER HAIG

It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
MATT HAIG

I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and i...
MATT HAIG

I have actually directed over thirty plays and about one hundred commercials for cable TV, but have ...
SID HAIG

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed dow...
MATT HAIG

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; th...
MATT HAIG

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a...
DOUGLAS HAIG

Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as the...
MATT HAIG

Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive...
MATT HAIG

You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. The...
MATT HAIG

You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for h...
MATT HAIG

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it...
DOUGLAS HAIG

Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out ...
MATT HAIG

I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about on...
MATT HAIG

Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental ...
MATT HAIG

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there ...
DOUGLAS HAIG

The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might...
MATT HAIG

in a world trying to increasingly isolate us from our environment and our true selves, books are our...
MATT HAIG

Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads ...
MATT HAIG

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them ag...
MATT HAIG

Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for...
MATT HAIG

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantag...
DOUGLAS HAIG

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost...
DOUGLAS HAIG

My mum always said I devoured 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' at the tender age of fo...
MATT HAIG

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for ...
MATT HAIG

The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and count...
MATT HAIG

If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process int...
MATT HAIG

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they a...
MATT HAIG

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.
MATT HAIG

In an age of never-ending health fads, it's comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activ...
MATT HAIG

However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound chee...
MATT HAIG

Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don't let...
MATT HAIG

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is...
MATT HAIG

People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more...
MATT HAIG

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for e...
MATT HAIG

I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people...
MATT HAIG

I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like...
MATT HAIG

It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental il...
MATT HAIG

We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when ta...
MATT HAIG

I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to impro...
MATT HAIG

We often joke about men moaning about being ill, whether it's man flu or anything else. We want ...
MATT HAIG

This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying ...
MATT HAIG

Impossible. An old elf swearword.
MATT HAIG

Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly wha...
MATT HAIG

MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to ho...
MATT HAIG

Liebe war der Weg, ewig zu leben in einem einzigen Moment
MATT HAIG

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see t...
MATT HAIG

Perhaps a wish was just a hope with better aim.
MATT HAIG

The key to happiness - or that even more desired thing, calmness - lies not in always thinking happy...
MATT HAIG

When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twof...
SID HAIG

Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
MATT HAIG

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
MATT HAIG

Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been liv...
MATT HAIG

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline ...
MATT HAIG

The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don’t ...
MATT HAIG

And for three weeks I was trapped in my own mind again. But this time, I had weapons. One of them, m...
MATT HAIG

Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the...
MATT HAIG

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How t...
MATT HAIG

But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thin...
MATT HAIG

Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stingi...
MATT HAIG

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see t...
MATT HAIG

One cliché attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of ...
MATT HAIG

Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make tim...
MATT HAIG

An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes think...
MATT HAIG

Things people say to depressives that they don’t say in other life-threatening situations:
MATT HAIG

Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.
MATT HAIG

You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.
MATT HAIG

If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the ...
MATT HAIG

I am you and you are me. We are alone, but not alone. We are trapped by time, but also infinite. Mad...
MATT HAIG

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.
MATT HAIG

To other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. You are walking around with your head on fi...
MATT HAIG

There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on thi...
MATT HAIG

Even more staggeringly, depression is a disease so bad that people are killing themselves because of...
MATT HAIG

I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying.
BRIAN HAIG

Advice for a human.

87. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a G...
MATT HAIG

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.
MATT HAIG

Bullets have little stopping-power against the horse
GENERAL DOUGLAS HAIG

Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER

On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER

As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER

Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER

Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER

Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER

Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER

As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER

Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER

Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
ALEXANDER

I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.
ALEXANDER

Do you know why responsible people do hide price of extremely expensive things? People don't want to...
ALEXANDER

I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we like it and it makes us think and fe...
RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN

I don't want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want ...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not stickin...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a con...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I'm not interested in being liked.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me....
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to ma...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting t...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's i...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

You can only go forward by making mistakes.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal s...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You ca...
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

All generalizations are false, including this one.
ALEXANDER CHASE

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

I want to empower women.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to...
ALEXANDER LOWEN

The proper study of Mankind is Man.
ALEXANDER POPE

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
ALEXANDER POPE

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
ALEXANDER POPE

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
ALEXANDER POPE

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.
ALEXANDER POPE

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE

The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
ALEXANDER POPE

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
ALEXANDER POPE

And die of nothing but a rage to live.
ALEXANDER POPE

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
ALEXANDER POPE

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
ALEXANDER POPE

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own pe...
ALEXANDER POPE

Never find fault with the absent.
ALEXANDER POPE

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
ALEXANDER POPE

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy...
ALEXANDER POPE

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
ALEXANDER POPE

We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.
ALEXANDER AHNDORIL

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
ALEXANDER POPE

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
ALEXANDER POPE

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to beg...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren'...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and mor...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, tha...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president an...
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting mone...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for ins...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only ...
LAMAR ALEXANDER

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Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
LAMAR ALEXANDER

Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected f...
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We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

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We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

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