Charles B. Rangel Quotes

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

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

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

It is simply not true that war never settles anything.

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.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

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.

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.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

War is failure of diplomacy.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

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

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

We cannot go on fighting a war for small hills.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

All wars are mishandled.

The United States will never take part in an aggressive war.

War is always an option. Peace is not.