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War Quotes
"The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."
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"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."
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"The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it."
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"War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum."
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"The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill."
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"I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?"
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"A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world."
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"The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again."
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"War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through."
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"I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing."
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"I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War."
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"The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision."
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"We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq."
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"I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests."
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"What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America."
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"I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established."
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"The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war."
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"Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then."
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"War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly."
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"These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable."
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"Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so."
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"If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being."
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"Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships."
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"Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement."
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"The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other."
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"This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world."
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"The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War."
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"More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam."
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