Quotes about Gulf

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. Votes: 4

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world. Votes: 4

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. Votes: 4

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast. Votes: 4

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands. Votes: 4

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. Votes: 4

What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line. Votes: 4

I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force. Votes: 4

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing. Votes: 4

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all. Votes: 4

Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there. Votes: 4

Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. Votes: 4

By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf. Votes: 4

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. Votes: 4

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower. Votes: 3

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. Votes: 3

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. Votes: 3

The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete. Votes: 3

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster. Votes: 3

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current. Votes: 3

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News. Votes: 3

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. Votes: 3

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism. Votes: 3

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico. Votes: 3

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war. Votes: 3

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon. Votes: 3

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone Votes: 3

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone. Votes: 3

The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression. Votes: 3

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. Votes: 3

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement. Votes: 3

The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991. Votes: 3

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region. Votes: 3

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have. Votes: 3

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. Votes: 3

We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada. Votes: 3

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. Votes: 3

In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500. Votes: 3

We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf. Votes: 3

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Votes: 3

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico Votes: 3

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. Votes: 3

We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan. Votes: 3

Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf Coast refineries. Votes: 3

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. Votes: 3

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. Votes: 3

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf. Votes: 3

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long. Votes: 3

Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty. Votes: 3

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf), Votes: 3

I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis. Votes: 3

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world." Votes: 3

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world. Votes: 3

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans. Votes: 3

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands. Votes: 3

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD. Votes: 3

The Gulf states are happy for us to fight and die. That's good for everybody, but the Americans fighting and dying. Votes: 3

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War. Votes: 3

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. Votes: 3

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater. Votes: 3

Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea. Votes: 3

On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans. Votes: 3

I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War. Votes: 3

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen. Votes: 3

Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same. Votes: 3

The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must. Votes: 3

I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf. Votes: 3

In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked. Votes: 3

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf. Votes: 3

Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values. Votes: 3

It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost. Votes: 3

How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest? Votes: 3

The oil spill is getting bad. There is so much oil and tar now in the Gulf of Mexico, Cubans can now walk to Miami. Votes: 3

There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon. Votes: 3

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement. Votes: 3

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement Votes: 3

Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from the Gulf of Mexico. Votes: 3

As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast. Votes: 3

Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well. Votes: 3

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon. Votes: 3

I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park. Votes: 3

Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us. Votes: 3

I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War. Votes: 3

The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited. Votes: 3

The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait... Votes: 3

You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders. Votes: 3

The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region. Votes: 3

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice. Votes: 3

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice Votes: 3

Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization. Votes: 3

When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd just gone through the first Gulf War. Votes: 3

Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed. Votes: 3

The pipeline would run from Canada to the Gulf Coast. It'll be the biggest underground structure leading into the U.S. Then people in Mexico said, 'Eh . . . second biggest.' Votes: 3

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology. Votes: 3

President Obama said he is going to use the Gulf disaster to push a new energy bill through Congress. How about using the Gulf disaster to fix the Gulf disaster? Votes: 3

Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for example, to get projects in the Persian Gulf emirates. Votes: 3

The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume. Votes: 3

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. Votes: 3

But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf. Votes: 3

The Gulf States are extraordinarily suspicious of Iran for good reason. They view Iran as meddling in their affairs. They have seen Iran level asymmetric attacks against their facilities or their interests. Votes: 3

Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War. Votes: 3

The president met with BP CEO Tony Hayward, and Obama was demanding that BP clean up the Gulf. And I'm thinking, good luck. They can't even clean up their gas station restrooms. Votes: 3

We don't want to put up the money. We owe almost $20 trillion. Doubled since [Barack] Obama took office, our national debt.But we will get the money from Gulf states and others. Votes: 3

The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets. Votes: 3

We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,. Votes: 3

As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of America's energy infrastructure based in the Gulf of Mexico was damaged or destroyed causing gas prices to soar. Votes: 3

Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia. Votes: 3

Solar, for example - which has typically been thought of as so expensive - is cheap when compared with, for example, the cost of cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf. Votes: 3

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do. Votes: 3

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do. Votes: 3

I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen. Votes: 3

There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this, so much oil in the Gulf, you can now park on it. Votes: 3

The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians. Votes: 3

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world. Votes: 3

The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list. Votes: 3

Most people forget that even in Iraq, by the time the air and no-fly zone was established, the air defence system had been removed through the first Gulf war. All of them had been neutralised. Votes: 3

How about that oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. And you know, the oil slick is going everywhere. So the next time somebody lands on the Hudson, it won't be that big a deal. Votes: 3

Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa. Votes: 3

BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused. Votes: 3

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area. Votes: 3

Our relations with Iran have witnessed grave crises because of the policies of successive regimes in Iran which have considered Iraq and the Arab homeland, particularly the Arab Gulf area, as a sphere for domination and influence. Votes: 3

President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, and several cabinet level officials have visited Alabama's Gulf Coast in recent days to tour the devastation and to offer their continuing support and prayers for everyone affected by the storm. Votes: 3

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. Votes: 3

The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes. Votes: 3

East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states commonly face damaging droughts. Extreme weather does not discriminate by American geography. Votes: 3

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late. Votes: 3

If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In time of war the first casualty is truth. Votes: 3

No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate. Votes: 3

The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind. Votes: 3

There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of achievement for making it through society. It's cementing allegiance to authority at a very young age. Votes: 3

One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities. Votes: 3

We are leading from behind under the Obama-Clinton doctrine - America's a great country. We need to stand up and start leading again, and we need to have allies, not just in Israel, but throughout the Persian Gulf. Votes: 3

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress negotiations often come slow or not at all. Votes: 3

This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002. Votes: 3

We shouldn't have a program where we just say that we're going to take care of the world's refugees. Nobody in the Middle East is doing anything. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait - all the Gulf nations are doing nothing. Votes: 3

The Gulf Waterkeepers are our first line of defense against the BP oil disaster. Their incredible knowledge of the marshes, wetlands, beaches and inner-coastal waters make them invaluable first responders. Their commitment makes them critical and effective community leaders. Votes: 3

But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies - or the coalition's forces - with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all? Votes: 3

Bluefin tuna spawn just south of the oil spill and they spawn only in the Gulf. If they were to go through the area at a critical time, that's one instance where a plume could destroy a whole species. Votes: 3

The Gulf of Mexico, they believe, is a huge asteroid. That was an impact zone, you know that? Yeah, for that big a thing to actually hit our globe, it would have had to adjusted the spin, the axis. Votes: 3

Bad news, it's going to be a huge environmental disaster, the oil rig down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The good news is they think now that the oil spill will be diluted by the melting ice caps. Votes: 3

Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Votes: 3

Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds. Votes: 3

The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. Votes: 3

Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected. Votes: 3

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change. Votes: 3

You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know during the Persian Gulf war those intelligence reports would come out: "Iraq: incredible weapons - incredible weapons." How do you know that? "Uh, well...we looked at the receipts." Votes: 3

While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a promise once kept and now broken: If you work full-time, you shouldn't have to raise your children in poverty. Votes: 3

BP found itself in a difficult situation after the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. We did everything we could to support it. Britain is interested in this, isn't it? I think it is. The same is true of other areas. Votes: 3

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves Votes: 3

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves. Votes: 3

The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil to the Gulf of Mexico where it could be shipped to customers - not just in the United States - but around the world. Votes: 3

For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense it was a local war. But it was one that made use of all the power normally reserved for global war. Votes: 3

In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program. Votes: 3

I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control. Votes: 3

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq. Votes: 3

Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total. Votes: 3

When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there's always something behind the wall in China. Votes: 3

George W. Bush was good as his word. He visited the Gulf states 17 times; went 13 times to New Orleans. Laura Bush made 24 trips. Bush saw that $126 billion in aid was sent to the Gulf's residents, as some members of his own party in Congress balked. Votes: 3

I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before You Hit The Floor," I didn't know what the hell was going on in the world. Votes: 3

The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam's troops killed thousands - Iraqis say tens of thousands - in a counter-offensive. Votes: 3

Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region. Votes: 3

We have to go massively, like we did in the first Gulf War where we destroyed Saddam's ability to take Kuwait. We need to have a coalition that will stand for nothing less than the total destruction of ISIS and we have to be the leader. Votes: 3

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from. Votes: 3

After a six-year battle, the Senate will vote next week to begin construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, which is an oil pipeline that runs from Canada to the Gulf Coast. They're hoping the pipeline will provide enough oil to cover Kim Kardashian's next photo shoot. Votes: 3

It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved. Votes: 3

In reality, you cannot withstand for five years and more against all those countries, the West, and the Gulf states, the petrodollars, and all this propaganda, the strongest media corporations around the world, if you don't have the support of your own people. That's against the reality. Votes: 3

I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's easy to realize that it's just not that big of a deal compared with what the people of the Gulf Coast are still going through. Votes: 3

The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast. Votes: 3

The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out. Votes: 3

The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home. Votes: 3

Morocco has a lot to do in terms of democracy. The daily practice of democracy evolves in time. Trying to apply a Western democratic system to a country of the Maghreb, the Middle East, or the Gulf would be a mistake. We are not Germany, Sweden or Spain. Votes: 3

Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it. Votes: 3

As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care. Votes: 3

Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive algal bloom covering some 16,000 square kilometers. As the blooms die off, this area-roughly the size of New Jersey-is so deprived of oxygen that no fish survive. Votes: 3

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. Votes: 3

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. Votes: 2

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it. Votes: 2

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq. Votes: 2

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. Votes: 2

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. Votes: 2

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days. Votes: 2

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home. Votes: 2

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands. Votes: 2

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition. Votes: 2

U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place. Votes: 2

During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.' Votes: 2

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast. Votes: 2

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana. Votes: 0

There seemed a gulf impassable between them. Votes: 0

Distance is a bridge, not a gulf, between lovers. Votes: 0

There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience. Votes: 0

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish. Votes: 0

Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast. Votes: 0

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. Votes: 0

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf. Votes: 0

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. Votes: 0

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations. Votes: 0

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge. Votes: 0

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church. Votes: 0

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths. Votes: 0

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless. Votes: 0

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. Votes: 0

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination. Votes: 0

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future. Votes: 0

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other. Votes: 0

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf. Votes: 0

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. Votes: 0

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false Votes: 0

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full. Votes: 0

The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf. Votes: 0

BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes. Votes: 0

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf! Votes: 0

My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property. Votes: 0

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it. Votes: 0

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice. Votes: 0

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. Votes: 0

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. Votes: 0

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. Votes: 0

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. Votes: 0

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. Votes: 0

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. Votes: 0

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. Votes: 0

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent. Votes: 0

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. Votes: 0

The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible. Votes: 0

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists. Votes: 0

There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God. Votes: 0

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives. Votes: 0

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth? Votes: 0

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. Votes: 0

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity. Votes: 0

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. Votes: 0

Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf. Votes: 0

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice. Votes: 0

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race. Votes: 0

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created. Votes: 0

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another. Votes: 0

The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot. Votes: 0

The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous. Votes: 0

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood. Votes: 0

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other. Votes: 0

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water. Votes: 0

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic. Votes: 0

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion. Votes: 0

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else. Votes: 0

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will. Votes: 0

I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources. Votes: 0

I've surfed once in the gulf. I wouldn't really call it surfing. It was like an ex-boyfriend pushing me into the waves or something. That was my limited experience. Votes: 0

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions. Votes: 0

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them. Votes: 0

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us. Votes: 0

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. Votes: 0

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. Votes: 0

You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that is being so vocally promoted today. Votes: 0

Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical. Votes: 0

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension. Votes: 0

The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes. Votes: 0

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery. Votes: 0

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf. Votes: 0

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin. Votes: 0

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. Votes: 0

Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf. Votes: 0

The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth. Votes: 0

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. Votes: 0

Under every burden, .....God will slip His hand. Every gulf of sorrow, .....His great love has spanned, Into every heart-ache, .....God will our His balm: Ease the pain and anguish, .....bring a blessed calm. Votes: 0

The more clearly we see the infinite chasm between God's glory and our sinful falling short thereof, the greater will be our appreciation of His grace and love in bridging that gulf to redeem us. Votes: 0

Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to their own selves-there is a horrendous gulf and disparity. Votes: 0