Quagmire Quotes

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. - Henrik Ibsen

You have to see yourself succeed, ... I told myself I'm not going to die in prison. If I did, my story would be the typical story - 'He was a no-good guy and he got caught up in the prison quagmire.' - Michael McKinney

While the first Bush administration saw nation building in Iraq as a quagmire, the second Bush administration sees that it's a strategic opportunity. The first Bush administration was afraid they'd be stuck. American troops would be staying there forever. It would be a chaotic country, might fall apart. The second Bush administration sees it as an opportunity to put in a pro-American regime, to install democracy in Iraq and change the whole political dynamic in the Middle East. - Michael Gordon

What I see is a quagmire developing because the rules adopted by the Nevada Tax Commission are not clear. The system is going to be held hostage by not having a rulebook. - Thomas Hall

We believe this compelling valuation offsets very real concerns about management's ability to develop a path out of the quagmire. - Christopher Dixon

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. - George Soros

To me, the growth issue and the roads issue are almost one and the same. They didn't plan for the growth here. The roads should have [been] built a long time ago. [If they keep building] you'll have a quagmire here, and it's really going to hurt the quality of life. - David Smith

This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now, ... It could be worse than Vietnam. The truth is we can't win, and there's still an ongoing deception. - Coleen Rowley

The wireless data market will die a thousand deaths in the business and consumer markets as service providers navigate their way through the quagmire that is legacy networks and technologies. - Bob Egan