Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes

The greatest of all evils is a weak government.

We are strong country with weak leadership.

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.

Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak.

The choice is De Gaulle or anarchy.

An uncontrollable situation, in which there are no clearly defined spheres of authority, has come about in the country. Under these conditions, normal life is impossible.

When governments become weak, troubles are certain to erupt.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

What would happen if we withdrew? Anarchy and confusion.

The first responsibility of the new government of Ireland is like trying to run a ship without a captain.

I have no doubt that our military would decisively defeat Iraq’s forces and remove Saddam. But like the proverbial dog chasing the car down the road, we must consider what we would do after we caught it. I am especially worried about the extreme difficulty of occupying Iraq with its history of autocratic rule, its balkanized ethnic tensions, and its isolated economic system. Our regime might be rejected by the Iraqi people, leading to civil unrest and even anarchy.

Advancing democracy does not always foster political stability.

Whenever a potential leader emerges to reimpose order in Mogadishu, criminal networks rise up to finance his opponent, no matter who that might be. The longer these areas are stateless, the harder it is to go back to the necessary evil of government.

Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

Simply eight young men … standing amidst the ruins of one administration with the foundation of another not yet laid …. No police were functioning through the country, no system of justice was operating, the wheels of the administration hung idle, battered out of recognition by the clash of rival jurisdictions.

You see the problem of an unstable White House from the outside and worry about it. But from the inside, it is 50 times worse.

Politics abhors a vacuum.

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

As was true in Iraq and Libya, the United States has no credible government or leader able to bring order, security, and freedom to the people of Syria if Assad is overthrown.