Alexander Haig Quotes

• Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

  Alexander Haig

  Practice, Levels, Affirmation

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• I am in control here, in the White House.

  Alexander Haig

  White, House, Pending

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 4 Apr. 1981

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• That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

  Alexander Haig

  Trust, Lying, Government

  "Would I Lie To You?" by Leigh W. Rutledge, 1998.

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• Que marchen todo lo que quieran, mientras sigan pagando sus impuestos.

  Alexander Haig

  Long, Want, Libertarian

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• Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.

  Alexander Haig

  Israel, Soldier, Doe

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• What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

  Alexander Haig

  Suicide, Children, Teaching

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• Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House.

  Alexander Haig

  Order, White, House

  "Trends Of 2010: The Political Year In Review". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 15, 2010.

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• The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.

  Alexander Haig

  Truth, Loss, Reality

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• To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

  Alexander Haig

  War, Democracies Have, Arrogance

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• I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

  Alexander Haig

  President, Vices, Alive

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• The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

  Alexander Haig

  Military, Eyebrows, Political

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• A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

  Alexander Haig

  Mutual Benefit, Long, Important

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• Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

  Alexander Haig

  Mail, Way, Internet

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• In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

  Alexander Haig

  Commitment, Storm, Troops

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• I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

  Alexander Haig

  War, Thinking, World

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• Sabes, está muy claro, cuando uno repasa la historia de la Guerra Fría, que, tras la crisis de Cuba, tras la paliza de Khrushchev a Jack Kennedy en Viena, el presidente Kennedy creía que teníamos que unirnos a la batalla por el Tercer Mundo, y la siguiente crisis que se desarrolló en ese sentido fue Vietnam.

  Alexander Haig

  War, Battle, President

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• Existen planes de contingencia en la doctrina de la OTAN para disparar un arma nuclear con fines demostrativos, para demostrar a la otra parte que está sobrepasando los límites de la tolerancia en el ámbito convencional.

  Alexander Haig

  Power, Fire, Doctrine

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• I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

  Alexander Haig

  Political, Tissues, Politics

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• Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

  Alexander Haig

  Important, Arms, Propaganda

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• Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

  Alexander Haig

  Hostage Crisis, Tough, Carter

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• Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

  Alexander Haig

  Thinking, Iran, Iraq

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• You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

  Alexander Haig

  Frustration, Middle East, Looks

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• Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.

  Alexander Haig

  Giving, Waiting, President

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• I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

  Alexander Haig

  Thinking, America, Generations

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• The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.

  Alexander Haig

  People, Quality, World

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