It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
The overriding goal of counterinsurgency is to make friends: You make friends with the people; you isolate the insurgents.
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.
Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.