Destabilize Quotes

There's a huge conviction in the Wall Street community that this will be a successful, surgical, short-lived military incursion. That it will not cause any collateral damage to oil fields, that it will not destabilize Middle Eastern governments and that it will not lead to acts of terrorism in the United States. - Bill Sullivan

There is a reason why Iran and Syria do their best to destabilize the situation in Iraq because they know that if Iraq is allowed to develop as a strong, Muslim state but with secular democratic government, then it's the best argument you can possibly have for people in Iran and in Syria to say 'Why don't we have some of that democracy? Why don't we have proper civil and human rights, too,' - Tony Blair

There are times when even great work is not enough to overcome other factors that destabilize a relationship. - Michael Roth

The Northern Bank robbery and the murder of Robert McCartney demonstrate that the IRA does not require crates of Kalashnikov rifles or surface-to-air missiles to destabilize and derail the peace process. It just needs a knife... Secret History of the IRA. - Ed Moloney

The goal of these so-called 'observers' is to provoke conflict situations during the election campaign and destabilize the situation in the country. - Andrei Popov

The crime today is without doubt an attempt to destabilize the situation on the eve of parliamentary elections. - Vladimir Putin

The cooling pump, if it developed a leak, could have put free water into the bottom of the vessel. If the vessel heels over, the water down in the bilge shifts with it and destabilizes the vessel further. There was some kind of weight shift: of people, water or both. - Bruce Johnson

The administration has found mounting evidence that Venezuela is actively using its oil wealth to destabilize its democratic neighbors in the Americas by funding anti-democratic groups in Bolivia and elsewhere. - Matthew Reynolds

That will destabilize the air enough that we could see some pretty big thunderstorms. - Jim Lushine

Pakistan has absolutely nothing to gain from a destabilized Afghanistan. - Jehangir Karamat