Nancy Gibbs Quotes

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.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

The problem with the War in Iraq is that every time we turn the corner, there is another corner.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

We have a failed state in Syria.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

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

This wretched war in Iraq which we never should have started, we don’t seem to be able to win, and we don’t know how to get out of …

Nearly a million persons formerly dwelt in Venezuela, and it is no exaggeration to say that one out of four has succumbed either to the land, sword, hunger, plague, flight, or privation, all consequences of the war

The Gates of Hell have been opened in Iraq.

I don’t care how precise your bombs and weapons of war are. When you set them off, innocent people will die.

It is not possible to teach an entire generation to bomb and destroy others in an undeclared, unjustified war abroad without paying the price in the derangement of our own society.

Our sacrifices are terrible. I can safely say that there is no other part of the world which has been devastated on a vaster scale than Yugoslavia. Every tenth Yugoslav has perished in this struggle in which we were forced to wrest armaments from our enemies, to freeze without clothing, and to die without medication

The occupation of Iraq is completely self-perpetuating: The worse things get the more we are obliged to stay. And the longer we stay the worse things get.

Ground combat almost always kills more civilians than drone strikes do.

A Citizen's Handbook for War