George Allen Quotes

By invading Iraq, the President has undermined the War on Terrorism.

President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

Woe to the statesman whose reason for entering a war do not appear so plausible at its end as at its beginning.

The Democrats are the party of war.

He too, liked his party, and was fond of loyal men; but he had learned at last that all loyalty must be built on a basis of self-advantage. Patriotism may exist without it, but …loyalty in politics was simply devotion to the side which a man conceives to be his side, and which he cannot leave without danger to himself.

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the Presidency defending us from freedom.

When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

There can hardly be a more grave act imaginable than to dupe a democracy into going to war, but this is what Bush has done.

A President can commit no more serious crime against our democracy than lying to Congress and the American people to get them to support a military action or war.

Germany is organized not only for war but for peace. We are organized for nothing except party politics.

In politics, loyalty is everything.

I am absolutely certain that George W. Bush did what he believed he had to do, in order to protect his country from the world of evil… The sad thing is that he was so deeply, deeply wrong.

Unless the president can make a very compelling case that Saddam Hussein has his finger on a weapon of mass destruction and is about ready to use it, I do not think that now is the time to go to war against Saddam Hussein.

I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country

Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage -- work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.