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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
Noam ChomskyIntervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
Nelson MandelaThere 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.
Colin PowellI saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
Madeleine AlbrightI had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
George W. BushIn 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.
Noam ChomskyThough men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
Robert GreeneIs the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?
Noam ChomskyThere are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.
Robert Baden-PowellI believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
Stephen Hawking