Ken Lucas Quotes

By invading Iraq, the President has undermined the War on Terrorism.

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

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.

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.

War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.

Woe to the statesman whose reason for entering a war do not appear so plausible at its end as at its beginning.

War is too serious a matter to be entrusted to generals.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

Whenever we get involved in a war, the White House seems to have 3 priorities: We cannot appear to be losing; we must appear to be winning; we must look like we know what we are doing.

Every aspect of war is political.

If there is going to be a war – and no one can say that there is not – we must keep him fresh to be our war Prime Minister

Wars the United States starts do not necessarily end when and how it wants them to.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

If this phrase of “the balance of power” is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting …

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

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.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

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.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

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.

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.