"I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not."

War, Authority, Iraq, President

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"I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not."

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"But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage and murder the inhabitants of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and to be slaughtered by them."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

War, Violence, History, Conflict

"Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

War, Responsibility, Death, Power

"Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago."

Joe Baca, American Politician

War, America, Beginning, Country

"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

War, Conflict, Opportunity, Survival

"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

War, Army

"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

War, Nation, Renunciation, Self

"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer

War, Killing, Minority, World

"War is the business of barbarians."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

War, Business

"What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?"

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

George Orwell, British Author

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"It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy."

Time, Economy, Tax, Opinion

"The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup."

People, Information

"I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence."

Being, Confidence, Events, President

"During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline."

Intelligence, War, Information, Listening

"I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair."

Intelligence, Committee, Nationalsecurity, Years

"The American people have been denied important information for their own protection."

People, Information, Protection

"Yes, more than 100 Democrats voted to authorize Bush to take the nation to war. Most of them did so in the belief that the president and his administration were truthful in their statements that Saddam Hussein was a gathering menace."

War, Belief, Democrats, Nation

"There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11."

Security, Disguise, Mistakes

"This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq."

Intelligence, War, Flaws, Iraq

"We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence."

Intelligence, Investment