Ronan Farrow Quotes

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

I believe in peace through strength. I would prefer to rely on the military rather than diplomats to protect our homes.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

From a very strategic level, I believe the military is part of the solution to better outcomes around the world, but at a higher level, it's really about economies.

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

One of the great advances of our time is the recognition that one of the ways to prevent war is to deter it by having the will and the capacity to use force to punish the aggressor.

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

I do not believe that diplomacy equals weakness…. If you are going to use force you better make sure that it is effective.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

Diplomacy without arms is music without instruments.

I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place