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  • The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good. -- Jack McDevitt
  • Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers. -- Suzanne Collins
  • I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home. -- Dennis Kucinich
  • Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers. -- Sergei Lavrov
  • United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony. -- Richard Holbrooke
  • I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed. -- Alex J. Morrison
  • We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping force. -- Sergei Lavrov
  • When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends, joined the army and started killing the Russian comrades in arms. -- Sergei Lavrov
  • Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done. -- Peter T. King
  • Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict on that continent. Africans for the most part lead peace negotiations for the wars being fought in Africa. -- John Prendergast
  • On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse. -- Samantha Power
  • Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia. -- Vladimir Putin
  • We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers. -- George W. Bush
  • I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed. -- Alex J. Morrison
  • Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment. -- George W. Bush
  • The United States must reach out to the world community with a new plan to stabilize Iraq, bring U.N. peacekeepers in, and bring U.S. troops home. -- Dennis Kucinich
  • Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war. -- Mel Duncan
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