Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes

Iraq has slipped enough toward dangerous paths that may endanger the country if we don't realize that the solution ... lies is the concept of national unity

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

The end of the Cold War unfroze religion and ethnicity as violent forces…

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

If Quebeckers want Jean Charest, well, they can choose him. It's never a winning formula to divide Quebeckers.

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.

Party spirit is in England an incurable disease.

The president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence, that he needs to demonstrate in order for him to be successful — and our nation and our world needs for him to be successful, whether you are Republican or Democrat. We're at a point where there needs to be radical changes at the White House — it has to happen," Corker told reporters following his luncheon address. He [President Trump] recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of our nation — what has made it great and what it is today. He's got to demonstrate the characteristics of a president who understands that. Without those things happening, our nation is going to go through great peril .... Helping to inspire divisions because it generates support from your base is not a formula for causing our nation to advance and to overcome the many issues that we have to deal with right now.

It is unfortunate that there is not a government in Iraq that has been able to unify the Shiites and the Sunnis sufficiently. They are not currently fighting together.

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

Polarized positions are an indulgence which … the nation cannot afford.

I am yet unprepared to give up the Union for a peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.--

In a highly diverse and fragmented society like Iraq, the military...is one of the few national institutions that stresses national unity as an important principle. Tot ear apart the army in the war’s aftermath could lead to the destruction of one of the only forces for unity within the society.

I think the ethnic difference in Iraq are there but they’re exaggerated.

If the States cannot live together in harmony, under the auspices of such a Government as exists, and in the midst of blessings, such as have been the fruits of it, what is the prospect threatened by the abolition of a Common Government, with all the rivalships collisions and animosities, inseparable from such an event.

Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument

…to make a commonwealth is to divide it into parties, which setteth them at perpetual variance, the one party endeavouring to preserve their eminence and inequality, and the other to attain their equality.

The Anglo-Irish of the Pale and the native Irish … hate one another as much as any two nations in the world ...

The real danger (in Yugoslavia) seems to be that both the Serbs and the Croats and Slovenes are becoming confirmed in the belief that the aims and interests of the one are in the nature of things contrary to the aims and interests of the other.

We've become so polarized we've become paralyzed.

Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories.

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.