Seth Moulton Quotes

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.

Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.

There will be no fighting. We know that these fellows won’t fight.

The fact that talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.

I can't really fight.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.

You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

I don't have to fight if I don't want to.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.