John Kasich Quotes

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

We can’t always pick and choose which conflicts were going to get into.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

In war ... diplomacy is the handmaiden of the necessities of the War Office.

Serbia must now be dealt with.

When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.

We've never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

I think it's going to be remembered as the last major war on planet Earth, if we're lucky, if we maintain our foreign policy properly. It will be remembered as the last time major countries had to put people in the field and put them in harm's way. It may be the last of all human nature wars, which is a nice way to remember any kind of a war, as the last one.

I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

War should always be the absolute last resort.

Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.