Meg Cabot Quotes

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

I think war and armed conflict is always the last of all the options you have on the table. I think you try to avoid that at all costs. Sometimes it's unavoidable. That's the lesson of World War II. I think the other lesson of the last 50 or 60 years, however, is that, the stronger the U.S. military, the stronger our defense capabilities, the stronger the chances for peace are.

I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

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.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

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

There is never a military solution to any problem.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government

Germany's path to greater military assertiveness has not been linear, and it never will be. Germans do not believe that talking at roundtables solves every problem, but neither do they think that shooting does.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

Every American president, regardless of party, has said that America has an intense interest in a peaceful resolution. And I think it should be left at that.

There is reason to say that negotiations with the North Koreans are not easy, they may not succeed, but they may be a way of getting to where we want to get to, limiting the capability of the North Koreans to do harm to us and our allies without the use of military force and without the risk of a major war in Northeast Asia.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war.