Subject: Conflict (Page 9)

Incoming fire has the right of way.

If you are short of everything except enemy, you are in combat.

If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

(1936 – 1989) American social & political activist

I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille.

(1933 – ) American comic actor, director, screenwriter & author

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping; men invade another country.

(1952 – ) comedian

Outside of the killings, [Washington] has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

(1936 – ) American politician, Mayor of Washington, D.C.

If we had less statesmanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.

(1965 – 2010) American stand-up comedian & television personality

When I see the Ten Most Wanted lists, I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

(1892 – 1964) singer, dancer, comedian, actor & songwriter

An Iranian moderate is one that has run out of ammunition.

(1923 – ) German-born diplomat & scholar

Abscond: To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Two people fighting is not violence in hockey. It might be in tennis or bowling, but it's not in hockey.

Canadian hockey goalie & coach

I don’t worry about terrorism… I was married for two years.

(1953 – 1992) American comedian

You might be a redneck if… you got into a fistfight at your last yard sale.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me $85; that’s why in the Navy, the captain goes down with the ship.

(1932 – 2017) comedian, social activist, critic & writer

Pacifist: A fellow who could attend a peace conference without getting into a fight.

One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all take off our shoes at the airport; thirty-one school shootings since Columbine and no change in our regulation of guns.

(1977 – ) British political comedian & television host

Convict: The only person who likes to be stopped in the middle of a sentence.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

(1927 – 1989) author, essayist & environmentalist

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

(1858 – 1919) 26th U.S. president