John Abizaid United Quotations

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

Why (anyone) would want to move against us in an overt manner that would cause us to use our air or naval power against them would be beyond me... We can generate more military power per square inch than anybody else on Earth, and everybody knows it... If you ever even contemplate our nuclear capability, it should give everybody the clear understanding that there is no power that can match the United States militarily,

The international community needs to continue to help and you can certainly count on the United States to continue to help as well,

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

I do think there is a general lack of understanding in the United States as to how it's going,