Conflict Zone Quotes

Iran is the base of an axis of evil which is a problem for all the world.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.

I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

Syria: It’s a messy civil war and we should not be involved in it.

Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.

A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan.

There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.

Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Now, a river of blood will divide France from its enemies.

The Middle East does not follow Las Vegas rules. Whatever happens in the Middle East affects the rest of the world.

Let's get one thing straight: I am not an adrenaline junkie. Just because you cover conflict doesn't mean you thrive on adrenaline. It means you have a purpose, and you feel it is very important for people back home to see what is happening on the front line, especially if we are sending American soldiers there.

Foreign fighters are travelling into Iraq to make it a front line in the war on terror. And I would rather defeat them there than face them in our own country.

If Israel sees weapons moving toward its border, it acts.

I think - I think the real nightmare place now is less Afghanistan than it is Pakistan. I mean, again, Pakistan is this gigantic country, deeply troubled, kind of almost ungovernable, sitting on top of probably 50 or 60 nuclear warheads. Nobody really knows where the warheads are; the Americans certainly don't know where they are.

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.

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