Tulsi Gabbard Quotes

We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.

From the very beginning, the American republic has never shrunk from foreign wars …. There has scarcely been a year since its founding that American soldiers haven’t been overseas … American foreign policy largely consists of doctrines about when and where to intervene in other people’s countries.

I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place

I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called nation-building. I think our troops ought to be used to fight and win war.

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

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

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.

It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

There are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it

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

War is but an instrument of international policy.

He had rather spend 100,000 pounds on Embassies to keep or procure peace with dishonor, than 100,000 pounds on an army that would have forced peace with honor.

Our country is being bled daily in an effort to create a democracy in a place where it never existed.

We’re not going to need as many people to do peacekeeping as we needed to fight the war.

By invading Iraq, the President has undermined the War on Terrorism.

If American lives must end, and American treasure be spilled, in countries we barely know, that is the price that change has demanded of conviction and of our enduring covenant.

I will not be the first American President who lost a war!

Every aspect of war is political.