Ann Coulter Quotes

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

Most people are disturbed by the shift from deterrence to preemption but the fact is that in international relations, deterrence has a poor track record

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.

Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy.

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.

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

The Democrats are the party of war.

In war ... diplomacy is the handmaiden of the necessities of the War Office.

The Mutual Security Act was intended not to fight a war but to prevent a war.

A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile from the Soviet Union or Cuba.

Instead of planning to deter would-be [nuclear] proliferators, U. S. policy makers have developed a preference for preventative war, They now seem to feel that deterrence is too weak to deal with radical regimes, forgetting that the precise purpose of deterrence is to counter dangerous enemies, not cautious ones.

Deterrence is a strategy for combining two competing goals: Countering an enemy and avoiding war.

It’s not in our interest to drive the Russians into a beleaguered attitude where they have to prove what they can do.

Military action without political context is ineffective.

The United States cannot have the image of warmongers, with all the potential consequences it could have for our respective countries.

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

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.

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.