Political Vacuum Quotes

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

There was no authority with which diplomacy could deal.

To simply demand that Assad go, and create a vacuum, could make the circumstances worse. To 'protect' Assad and his brutality is unconscionable. So you have to have a transition period here.

Netanyahu needs to leave Israel's political life.

The very fact Boris Johnson is the favourite to succeed May says everything about how vacuous and morally bankrupt our politics has become.

Tamil Nadu needs a leader, a leadership. I am coming to fill that vacuum.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

If we had maintained a small, residual force in Iraq, I don't think the Islamic State would have risen to power as it has.

We pulled out of Libya. Now look what's happened: a safe haven, a vacuum, ISIS training militants to hit in Tunisia.

When facing a national crisis, we cannot allow a political vacuum to exist.

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

The media are so key in a national emergency, especially when opposition parties in the U.K. are - let us say - largely in disarray, even leaderless.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum.

[Hillary] Clinton is too much into regime change and a little bit too aggressive without knowing what the unintended consequences might be. Yes, we could get rid of Assad tomorrow, but that would create another political vacuum that would benefit ISIS.

Politics abhors a rhetorical vacuum. If the president is not clear on his … strategy, foreign policy critics and political opponents will be happy to define it for him, using less than flattering language.

If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse.

All you have to do is see the way ISIS was created in the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama out of Iraq.