Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

When we walk everyday on the razor-edge of danger, a peace-loving people do not want a trigger-happy President in the White House.

Every US President has to have a war.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

War is just one more big government program.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

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

War is too serious a matter to be entrusted to generals.

To be a great president you have to have a war. All the great presidents had their wars.

There is no issue of greater importance to the U.S. Senate than war and peace.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Every aspect of war is political.

In order to function, the United States needs an enemy.

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”