Pat Roberts Quotes

In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.

The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.

We stand with the government and people of Afghanistan in their quest for peace, stability and prosperity.

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

The reasoning for our civil-military plan is that lasting success will be when the Afghan government, security forces and people can resist the insurgents and terrorists themselves.

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.

Reconstruction requires security and security requires reconstruction.

We've been able to build up the Afghan security forces and stabilize it.

I built Kosovo for 10 years.

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

Our system of government is protected from the cabal of the few and the confusion of the multitude.

Democracy is good, provided the government can function.

In government it is order that matters.

If any country wants to develop, it must practice democracy. If I look around the world, I see that the prosperous countries practice democracy.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf brought stability to a place that was going to Hell.

Governance is a universal phenomenon in any society, but it may not lead a society to human development.