Denis Leary Quotes

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

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.

There is no reason that Iraq should be at war with Israel.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

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.

Nobody has trusted the Iranian government from day one, but the idea of just refusing to have any kind of talks is dangerous in the extreme. Every administration says at least that we're trying to have talks between Israel and Palestine and solve the Middle East peace problem.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

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.

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

No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.

Let the king consider as hostile his immediate neighbor and the enemy of such a foe, as friendly.

Our plan was to have no Interest, Connection or Embarrassment in the Politicks or Wars of Europe, if we could avoid it.

Piracy and war gave place to trade, politics and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord.

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

We don't have much to say about your Arab-Arab border differences such as you have with Kuwait. All we hope is that you solve this quickly.

If France, Germany, and Great Britain – who have often been at war with each other – are now friends, then India, Pakistan, and China could become friends, too.

We can not have peace and prosperity in Asia with any single country trying to dominate the region.

Our country is being bled daily in an effort to create a democracy in a place where it never existed.

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

We make mistakes in every war and serious mistakes were made here.

Douglas, Douglas, you would make Neville Chamberlain look like a warmonger

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.