Bianca Jagger Quotes

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.

War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

My voice is still [i.e. silent] for war.

If I am called an appeaser because I oppose the country’s entry into the present war, I gladly accept the title.

I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless[ly] and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.

I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand

I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it. And the parallel between one quagmire we went through in Vietnam and the one we're in now is clear for everybody to see.

To stand up for peace and against war and for disarmament is very courageous here in America.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

It takes real courage and conviction to attack the establishment from within and makes waves as big as a tsunami. Ted Cruz has done that - consistently and successfully - on immigration and other issues like Obamacare, voting rights, and the 2nd Amendment.

We can score political points. We can try to advance some important initiatives. But at some point, it takes sober-minded, responsible conservative leaders to identify when you've pushed as far as you can and to have the courage to go back and face the electorate and explain to them why you voted the way you did.

In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

I remember Congressman Conyers voting against the PATRIOT Act, voting against the Iraq War when it was unpopular to. That tremendous amount of courage that comes with that kind of leadership, I mean, that's what we need.