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[He] sought departure from nation-building, [but] he was a hawk on American interests and use of military to achieve political goals, when Trump iced Iran's top general while he was driving around in Iraq, he sent a message to every other world leader that America, under Trump, was not to be messed with. – Mark Hemingway	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The conclusion then was very simple, barbados had reached the stage of maturity in its political evolution where what ought to have been part and parcel of the movement to independence was not for pragmatic reasons. Fifty-five years later this failure is rectified by a prime minister who is determined to complete the process of nation-building which has obviously stalled for the last four decades or so. – Cynthia Barrow-Giles	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was sickened by the Biden quote that we could carry on in Afghanistan alone if we wanted, as I remember, we have always been aware of the problems in Afghanistan, and we spent many years there in Queen Victoria’s reign, regretting our exploits. But we were persuaded by our American friends to join them, to give world-wide authenticity (and US domestic authenticity) to an invasion by America. That was followed by an expensive period of ‘nation building,’ when the truth is that we cannot build someone else’s nation. It’s been hard enough building our own. – Lord Borwick of Hawkshead	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The country would not lose anything if these foreign economists leave the country, nation building cannot be done by people on sabbatical leave. – Ashwani Mahajan	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are not nation-building. We are killing terrorists. – Candidate Trump	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
If I become president, the era of nation-building will be brought to a very swift and decisive end. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Soon I will be calling elections to ask for your mandate, to take Singapore into this next phase of our nation building. – Lee Kuan Yew	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The partner-nation building, working to develop the relationships with the countries in this region and with the personnel, whether the ministries of health and everything that we work with coming into each country ... the relationships that are established will pay dividends in the future. – Captain Sam Hancock	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The enemy is radical Islam and not only will I name the enemy, I will do whatever it takes to defend America from these haters of mankind, i envision an America with a national defense unparalleled, undefeatable, and unencumbered by overseas nation building. – Ron Paul	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There is very little appetite for nation building, it would cost a lot. Which countries are going to contribute troops to go to South Sudan? – Harry Verhoeven	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We want them to refrain from violence, to seek cooperation in all possible ways. And above all to defend democracy, human rights and the position of women in what's going to be nation-building for Palestine from now on. – Margot Wallstrom	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The time of deploying large numbers of ground forces with big military footprints to engage in nation-building overseas that's coming to an end, going forward, our military will be leaner. – Barack Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

[He] sought departure from nation-building, [but] he was a hawk on American interests and use of military to achieve political goals, when Trump iced Iran's top general while he was driving around in Iraq, he sent a message to every other world leader that America, under Trump, was not to be messed with.

– Mark Hemingway

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The conclusion then was very simple, barbados had reached the stage of maturity in its political evolution where what ought to have been part and parcel of the movement to independence was not for pragmatic reasons. Fifty-five years later this failure is rectified by a prime minister who is determined to complete the process of nation-building which has obviously stalled for the last four decades or so.

– Cynthia Barrow-Giles

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was sickened by the Biden quote that we could carry on in Afghanistan alone if we wanted, as I remember, we have always been aware of the problems in Afghanistan, and we spent many years there in Queen Victoria’s reign, regretting our exploits. But we were persuaded by our American friends to join them, to give world-wide authenticity (and US domestic authenticity) to an invasion by America. That was followed by an expensive period of ‘nation building,’ when the truth is that we cannot build someone else’s nation. It’s been hard enough building our own.

– Lord Borwick of Hawkshead

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The country would not lose anything if these foreign economists leave the country, nation building cannot be done by people on sabbatical leave.

– Ashwani Mahajan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We are not nation-building. We are killing terrorists.

– Candidate Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If I become president, the era of nation-building will be brought to a very swift and decisive end.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Soon I will be calling elections to ask for your mandate, to take Singapore into this next phase of our nation building.

– Lee Kuan Yew

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The partner-nation building, working to develop the relationships with the countries in this region and with the personnel, whether the ministries of health and everything that we work with coming into each country ... the relationships that are established will pay dividends in the future.

– Captain Sam Hancock

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The enemy is radical Islam and not only will I name the enemy, I will do whatever it takes to defend America from these haters of mankind, i envision an America with a national defense unparalleled, undefeatable, and unencumbered by overseas nation building.

– Ron Paul

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There is very little appetite for nation building, it would cost a lot. Which countries are going to contribute troops to go to South Sudan?

– Harry Verhoeven

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We want them to refrain from violence, to seek cooperation in all possible ways. And above all to defend democracy, human rights and the position of women in what's going to be nation-building for Palestine from now on.

– Margot Wallstrom

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The time of deploying large numbers of ground forces with big military footprints to engage in nation-building overseas that's coming to an end, going forward, our military will be leaner.

– Barack Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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