Charles George Chinese Gordon Quotes

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.

My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn't seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.

We will do our best to keep the trouble out of the rural areas, but if we fail, widespread massacres are inevitable.

The security agencies are prosecuting the government’s war in Darfur.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

Syria has become the great tragedy of the century—a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.

Like a nuclear disaster, the fallout from the meltdown of Syria threatens to be with us for decades, and the longer it is permitted to continue, the more severe the damage will be.

It was wrenching to read about the brutality of Assad every morning, to see images of family homes reduced to rubble. I felt we had to do something in Syria.

As a government, it is our responsibility to maintain security for all citizens in Darfur.

The deplorable Syrian refugee crisis was created because Syrian President Bashar al-Assad started a war on his people, and the international community refused to confront him.

I fought for years in South Sudan for the unity of Sudan. I was a commander in the fields, fighting for the unity of Sudan.

The Sudanese army has retaken some towns. The people there are all living in caves because the Sudanese army is shelling their villages.

We have to stop the killing. We need to let the refugees - we need to let Syrian citizens go home.

There 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.

The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.