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" I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you. "
David Petraeus
Office
You
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" Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. "
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Literature
Peaceful
Push
" We can put a stake through the heart of Islamic State as an army. We can put a stake through the heart of its leaders. You can take away its territory. But you can't put a stake through the heart of the ideas, of the ideology, that sadly, tragically, still has some attraction for some small numbers in the Islamic faith. "
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" Iran has had a very harmful effect in a variety of ways in the region... fomenting unrest to a degree in Saudi Arabia, undoubtedly in Bahrain, and definitely in Yemen with Hamas, with Lebanese Hezbollah among other activities in locations. "
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Effect
Other
" I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.' "
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Like
Use
Realist
" During the surge in Iraq, we were able to roll back the tide of al-Qaeda and associated insurgents because we succeeded in mobilizing Iraqis - especially Sunni Arabs - to join us in fighting against the largely Sunni extremist networks in their midst. "
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Against
Us
Tide
" I considered our British comrades to rank with the finest men and women of any armed service in the world. And I know that my fellow American soldiers - and those of the other coalition countries under my command - valued very highly the professional expertise, capability, courage, and determination of our British partners on the battlefield. "
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Women
Courage
Determination
" Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing. "
David Petraeus
Connected
Will
Tiny
" Only Nixon could have gone to China. Anyone else would have been criticised from the Right. "
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Been
Gone
China
" I've truly tried to be apolitical. "
David Petraeus
Apolitical
Tried
Truly
" We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools. "
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Way
Become
Flight
" The president and I sat down in the Oval Office, and he expressed very clearly that what he wants from me is my best professional military advice. "
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He
Me
Professional
" Leaders of the various Iraqi elements will likely have their own militias, and there will be endless rounds of brinkmanship on the road to post-Islamic State boundaries, governing structures, and distribution of power and resources. "
David Petraeus
Power
Own
Will
" We're all outriders out there, and what we have is all these large number of tasks - that's the herd; that's all the cattle - a whole bunch of individual, hundreds if not thousands of projects at any given time ongoing that we're trying to complete. So we're trying to keep the cattle herd, keep it all just going in the right direction. "
David Petraeus
Direction
Time
Right
" The central problem in Syria is that Sunni Arabs will not be willing partners against the Islamic State unless we commit to protect them and the broader Syrian population against all enemies, not just ISIS. "
David Petraeus
Protect
Enemies
Against
" I had the privilege of serving in uniform with British forces in Cold War Europe, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the greater Middle East. "
David Petraeus
War
Cold
Serving
" The truth is that a number of us have been saying for quite some time that it was only a matter of time until someone went to a gun show, bought a military-like semi-automatic assault weapon with a large capacity magazine, and did enormous damage. "
David Petraeus
Time
Saying
Gun
" The proximate cause of Iraq's unraveling was the increasing authoritarian, sectarian, and corrupt conduct of the Iraqi government and its leader after the departure of the last U.S. combat forces in 2011. "
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Cause
Last
Government
" I don't comment directly on actions or statements of candidates. "
David Petraeus
Statements
Actions
Candidates
" At least from a national security standpoint, none of the problems the U.S. and U.K. face will become easier to solve if the U.K. is out of the E.U.; on the contrary, I fear that a 'Brexit' would only make our world even more dangerous and difficult to manage. "
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Security
Problems
Fear
" The bottom line is, you really have to commit to something if you're going to be successful in it. "
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Successful
Bottom
Going
" The Middle East is not part of the world that plays by Las Vegas rules: What happens in the Middle East is not going to stay in the Middle East. "
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Vegas
Going
Middle
" I can't for the life of me think of the link between Iraq and why a fruit vendor self-immolates in Tunisia and cracks this seemingly solid crust that turns out to be so fragile that societal unrest touches off. "
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Life
Me
Why
" There is no question in my mind that a 'Brexit' would deal a significant blow to the E.U.'s strength and resilience at exactly the moment when the West is under attack from multiple directions. "
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Moment
Mind
Resilience
" During the surge and in the years after the surge, Iraqi forces fought and died for their country at vastly higher numbers than did U.S. and coalition forces. We know that they can fight. "
David Petraeus
Country
Years
Numbers
" Setting aside moral considerations, those who flirt with hate speech against Muslims should realize they are playing directly into the hands of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. The terrorists' explicit hope has been to try to provoke a clash of civilizations - telling Muslims that the United States is at war with them and their religion. "
David Petraeus
Speech
Hands
War
" Needless to say, it was the greatest of privileges to serve with the selfless men and women - Iraqi and American and those of our coalition partners, civilian as well as military - who did the hard, dangerous work of the surge. There seldom was an easy period; each day was tough. "
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Work
Women
Tough
" After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. "
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Years
Engaging
Judgment
" When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda. "
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Discrimination
Politicians
Islam
" Nothing means more to those in harm's way than the knowledge that their country appreciates their sacrifices and those of their families. "
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Way
Knowledge
More
" The Afghan people do not take kindly to conquerors. "
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Take
Kindly
Afghan