Tom Clancy Quotes

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed.... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

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

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

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

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.

There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

There is no question about the fact that we had very serious disagreements with my German, French, and Russian colleagues over the Iraq war. But I never stopped talking.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

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.

The threat of a world war is no more.

Ukraine is the instrument for Russia to test the West's 'red lines'

We need, from time to time, to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there are probably some who actually believe, if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything is going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

shane: so is world war fifteen over out there? claire:i think so

You have to decide in advance whether you're ready go to war. If you guys are ready to send a million troops into Ukraine and fight World War III, you're going to do it without my support because I think that's a really foolish notion.

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.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.