Charles E. Schumer Quotes

The cost of war is hard to count.

We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Wars cost money.

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.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

Wars are made to make debt.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

War is just one more big government program.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

One single war — we all know — may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good.

In wars, serious mistakes are made.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

By the time the United States went to war with Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, I had made three trips to the country. I covered the fall of the Taliban in Kandahar and have been returning routinely for the past 14 years.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

Nothing can justify war.