Bill Clinton Quotes

I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

What would happen if we withdrew? Anarchy and confusion.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.

Mexico scares me. There's no law, there's wild dogs and people driving their ATVs down the street. I like to know I can walk down the street and not be arrested for something dumb and have to pay to get my way out.

Even in a healthy society, violence, lawlessness, and predation lie just below the surface.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Today the world is a big jungle.

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.

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

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

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead

This is chaos—organized chaos at best.

We paid a big price for not stopping it -- that is the looting and the security -- because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness. We never had enough troops on the ground

As soon as control eases, there is chaos. [Yi fang, jiu luan.]

You have seen for a long time the great disorder in the world caused by these crimes. It is so bad in some of your provinces, I am told, and you are so weak in the administration of justice, that one can hardly go along the road by day or night without being attacked by robbers; and whether at home or abroad one is in danger of being despoiled either by force or fraud.