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)
It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years. (Alexander Haig)
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. (Alexander Haig)
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)
Haig told Perot that the Christmas effort to send mail to U. S. prisoners of war in North Vietnam caught Hanoi off balance, and its handling of the matter caused it to lose face in the eyes of diplomats and other foreign officials in North Vietnam. ... a tremendous success. (Alexander Haig)
We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare. (Alexander Haig)
Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U. S. Army... an officer of impeccable character with a rare blend of personal qualities and professional attributes which uniquely qualify him as a soldier-scholar. (Alexander Haig)
Every asset of the nation must be applied to the conflict to bring about a quick and successful outcome, or don't do it. We're in the midst of another struggle where it appears to me we haven't learned very much. (Alexander Haig)
I probably carry more scar tissue on my derriere than any other candidate- that's political scar tissue. (Alexander Haig)
It is not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. (Alexander Haig)
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)
Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah. (Alexander Haig)
There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion. (Alexander Haig)
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)
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)