New York Daily News Quotes

I am saddened, saddened that this President [George W. Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that were now forced to war.

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf, if you remember. And so is the case with 9/11. It was a stateless actor which has made the world go to war.

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

History will show that perhaps we did not think through the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad. But here we are.

You help us pay for the war we’ll fight; we’ll launch it while you’re asleep at night. We don’t need friends all around the world; We’ll buy our friends with our flag unfurled, And spread our arms on a global scale To show the world that we still prevail. Oh, we’re not leaders inspiring peace, But we’re in power as the world’s police. So pay your tax for our little war, And we’ll not ask for any more. This year!

Do not play with fire in Indonesia … let not the lack of understanding by America lead to a third world war.

If the minds of men can be turned even for a short time away from passion, race antagonism and from national aggrandizement to a contemplation of the individual and … to the shocking horrors which modern warfare entails, a step, and by no means a short one, will have been taken towards the substitution of justice for force in the settlement of institutional differences.

It is not every cause of war that should lead to war.

It is simply not true that war never settles anything.

We would be hard pressed to find a majority of any country in the world who admired the United States the way they did from World War I up until the day we went into Iraq.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

Every aspect of war is political.

We make mistakes in every war and serious mistakes were made here.

Not every Congressionally declared war will be remembered as a “good war”, but few if any Presidentially declared wars, if any, will ever be.

I agree that obviously we cannot retreat from our position in Vietnam…. But we are going to have to muddle through for a while and see what we do.