Intervene Quotes

If I`d seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I`d intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it`s your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

I think it`s appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something.

Our concern is we`ve gone to a great deal of effort through the (National Environmental Policy Act) process to reach what we consider to be a very-hard-fought for ... compromise solution. That`s the only process we feel is in place for us to follow. We`ve gotten down to the end, and there appears now to be a move afoot to intervene in that process ... and prevent this public works project from moving forward.

(Later that day, Matthew and James Wells drove to Moscow.) They said they didn`t come over with the intent to kill anybody, ... Both of the Wells brothers had played college ball and were going to try and intervene and diffuse the problems.

If the Europeans want to intervene, that`s their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

The bottom line is physicians and all health care workers are in a unique position to determine if inappropriate relationships exist and intervene very early in the game,

My experience with juveniles is that kids have a tendency that, when they start getting in trouble, they get into more and more trouble quickly, ... And the early intervention that a juvenile assessment center will provide us will allow us to intervene and disrupt that process quicker.

The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.

Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it`s the citizen who changes things.

If you say that we`re going to intervene to stop ethnic cleansing but we`re only going to do it at 15,000 feet, you can`t actually do it.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn`t practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

We didn`t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.