Alexander Haig famous quotes

03-28-2025

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
Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
-- Alexander Haig

#Long #Want #Libertarian
I am in control here, in the White House.
-- Alexander Haig

#White #House
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

#Long #Important #Benefits
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
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

#Tough #Crisis #Carter
I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.
-- Alexander Haig

#School #Warrior #Years
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
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 #Arrogance #Democracy
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

#Iran #Paris #Giving
There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area.
-- Alexander Haig

#Power #Fire #Limits
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
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
-- Alexander Haig

#Trust #Lying
You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.
-- Alexander Haig

#War #Battle #President
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
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
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
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
-- Alexander Haig

#Military #Eyebrows #Political
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
As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.
-- Alexander Haig

#War #Circles #America
If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
-- Alexander Haig

#Islam #Target #Firsts
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
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
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

#Country #Recovery #Years
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, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.
-- Alexander Haig

#White #Order #House

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