Tom Lantos Quotes

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

If women and children have cruelly and needlessly suffered, if without reason cities have been wrecked, the world should know that.

if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

War is not a thing one wants.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.

Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

War is an abstraction.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

We brought disaster upon... Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave... We have rendered them dispossessed... We have accustomed them to begging... We have participated in lowering their moral and social level... Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon... men, women and children - all this in service of political purposes...

I think I ought not apologize for my actions. I am at war with your country. I'm at war with them not for personal reasons but because they have murdered more than, so many children and they have oppressed my religion and they have oppressed people for no reason except that they say we believe in Allah.