You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.
Robert Harris
PoliticsWarYouFallRiseKnow
I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.
Thomas Piketty
LiveWarPeopleColdProblemMine
The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.
Tom Harkin
WarSexOutGotGulf WarSoon
The war against terrorism is one we must win.
Lisa Murkowski
WarWinTerrorismAgainstMust
Let the politicians debate equal pay and pursue the folly of a war on women in America.
Brian Kilmeade
WomenWarAmericaDebateEqualPay
I'm very proud of the fact that I voted against the Iraq war. And proud that I voted strongly not for students to be saddled with thousands and thousands of pounds worth of debt.
Jeremy Corbyn
WarProudWorthDebtAgainstFact
The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.
Peter Bergen
WarWorldVictoryImportantDefeated
And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.
Stephen Cambone
BusinessWarPeopleHelpAccomplish
Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war. As a result of the sectarian violence from 2005-2007, women retreated to their homes and fell from public view.
Richard Engel
EducationWomenWarViewResult
We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
Mike Rowe
WorkWarEnemyCollectivelyAgreed
Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
ProgressWarSupportYouBecomeSee
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
Arthur Keith
ImaginationWarPeopleProcessForce
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
Ed Harris
FearDecisionWarPeopleSayingYou
If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
AgeWarThinkDieProblemCountry
These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.
Tom Allen
TodayMoneyWarTaxYearsPay
I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.
Tom Hooper
FatherWarLosingMeWorldFeel
Believe me, it is much harder to make peace than war.
Juan Manuel Santos
PeaceWarMeBelieveThanMuch
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
Chuck Jones
GreatWarOldYearsRadioComing
War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.
Jeh Johnson
ChildrenWarParentsOrderThings
Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief.
Susan Estrich
HateWarNameViolenceI CanGo
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
Stephen Cohen
LeaderWarColdCountryMarchOut
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
Richard Holbrooke
ExperienceWarWorldGeneration
During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.
Martin Ryle
ExperienceWarPeopleEngineering
If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
Dorothy L. Sayers
WarMeDownGroundSuitWould
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