Seymour Hersh Quotes

Fight to the bitter end.

The Russians feared Ike [Eisenhower, in Korea]. They didn't fear me [in Vietnam].

They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.

If I'm going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I'm a very good dealmaker, believe me.

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

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.

No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.

I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.

We're going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

You can support the troops but not the president.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

We inherited a national debt that has doubled in eight years. Think of it - $20 trillion. It's doubled. And we inherited a foreign policy marked by one disaster after another. We don't win anymore. When was the last time we won? Did we win a war? Do we win anything? Do we win anything? We're going to win. We're going to win big, folks. We're going to start winning again, believe me.

We know about bad guys, what they do, and often, who they are. The politicians have chosen to send us into battle, and that's our trade. We do what's necessary. And in my view, once those politicians have elected to send us out to do what 99.9 percent of the country would be terrified to undertake, they should get the hell out of the way and stay there.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.

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

I continue to believe, and Trump has cleverly put fear on the ballot and fear in the eyes of folks, and my parents taught me that if you blow out your neighbor's candle, it doesn't make your candle shine any brighter.

If you look at Libya, I was deeply concerned about what would happen after Qaddafi was gone.

Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.