Alexander Haig

Public Servant

1924-12-02 – 2010-02-20

Alexander Haig was an American military officer and public official who served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1981 to 1982. He also held senior NATO and White House posts, including Supreme Allied Commander Europe. His career linked military command and Cold War-era diplomacy.

Quotes by Alexander Haig

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
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Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.
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To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
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Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
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Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.
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I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
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You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.
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The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
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As of now, I am in control here in the White House.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
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