Yoweri Museveni Quotes

The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think ultimately depends upon the kinds of government that hold sway in major countries.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

The main challenge for American foreign policy in many places is not to influence relations between states but rather to influence events within states.

Six years ago today war was declared. Now we are starting again with officially declared peace the world in physical and spiritual chaos. History in the making can be most exhausting.

Libya is a huge disaster.

The U.N. and other international bodies, along with wealthier nations, could manage the unavoidable migration from poorer countries if there were greater focus on stopping the larger chaos created by leaders who finance and support terrorism in the name of Islam.

When we toppled [Muammar] Gadhafi in Libya, I think that was a mistake. I think ISIS grew stronger, we had a failed state, and we were more at risk.

These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave...I think the world would be better off if we did leave.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

Moammar Gadhafi had more American blood on his hands than any individual other than Osama bin Laden.

We need to be much more far thinking in this new 21st century era of - of nation state failures and conflict. It's not just about getting rid of a single dictator. It is about understanding the secondary and third consequences that fall next.

Libya is still a mess right now.

War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.

We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead.

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

I don't see a coherent global order anywhere on the horizon.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.

It’s not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.

War only in the ring. Peace on earth