Bob Graham Quotes

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

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.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

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.

In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.

I am saddened, saddened that this President [George W. Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that were now forced to war.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.

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.

As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

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

I didn't vote for Bush, and I'm not happy particularly that he's president. But I will say I'm impressed that he didn't start bombing Afghanistan the day after Sept. 11. The more time that passes without him bombing Afghanistan, the more I respect him.

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.

I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.