Stability gave us North Korea. Stability gave us Castro. Stability gave us Saddam. Stability gave us Assad's Syria. Stability gave us the Taliban. Stability gave us the West Bank and Gaza strip. Stability gave us 9/11.
Settling for stability means tolerating our enemies' existance.
Status quo, you know, that is Latin for "the mess we're in."
- Ronald Reagan, U.S. president. Address, 16 March 1981 to Associated General Contractors of America.