We will stand by Iraq when times are tough and we will be a committed friend, not a fair-weather friend,
Quotes about fair-weather (4 Quotes)
If you're going to boo, then boo. Don't be fair-weather fans. I'd rather not be applauded anymore.
The fair-weather gardener, who will do nothing except when wind and weather and everything else are favourable, is never a master of his craft. Gardening, above all other crafts, is a matter of faith, grounded, however (if on nothing better), on his experience that somehow or other seasons go on in their right course, and bring their right results. No doubt bad seasons are a trial of his faith it is grievous to lose the fruits of much labour by a frosty winter or a droughty summer, but, after all, frost and drought are necessities for which, in all his calculations, he must leave an ample margin but even in the extreme cases, when the margin is past, the gardener's occupation is not gone.
We in Europe have a real opportunity to show that...we are not fair-weather friends, who turn away at the first sign of difficulty.