Domestic Support Quotes

It is absolutely critical to build domestic support for any foreign initiative.

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

States with shallow domestic legitimacy tend to fail when they lose foreign support.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

Unless you empower your domestic investor and domestic industry and domestic confidence in the sector, no foreigner is going to come.

The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

Moral claims can be asserted as a national prerogative only at the cost of long-term domestic and international support.

Every new conquest made by the rebels strengthens their hands at home and their claim to recognition as an independent people abroad. So long as the rebels could claim “that the Northern men are deficient in the courage necessary to maintain the Government,” the secession momentum would continue.

The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.

Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.

I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.

I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.

Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

You won't believe it, but for the first two years of our marriage I lived off my wife. Like every self-respecting man, I hated it.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

Viable grand strategies need to rest on a wellspring of domestic support.

The people with the most resources are the federal government. If you can invade a country halfway across the world in a matter of days, you can surely come to the aid of your own citizens in a shorter order of time.

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

I look after two people - my wife and my son.

I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.

I don't know how much love David felt - I suspect very little. My main appeal to him was as a nurse, cook, housekeeper, creative ally, and business adviser.