Denis Thatcher Quotes

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

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

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.

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

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

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 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.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

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.

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.