Hillary Clinton Quotes

War is but an instrument of international policy.

For nearly 7 decades United States has been the anchor of global security. This is meant more than forging international agreements. It has meant enforcing them.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

Keep America strong. Strong in our values, strong in our economy, and strong in our military might. We hope to never have to use our military strength, but the world counts on a strong America to keep the worst actors from doing the worst things.

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

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

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.

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.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

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

I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.

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

We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.

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.

We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.

I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

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

The Pentagon is always going to be the last to want to intervene. It is up to the civilians to tell us what they want to do and we’ll figure out how to do it.

There is no issue of greater importance to the U.S. Senate than war and peace.

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

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

He had rather spend 100,000 pounds on Embassies to keep or procure peace with dishonor, than 100,000 pounds on an army that would have forced peace with honor.

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.