Jan Schakowsky Quotes

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Police do not belong in war zones.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation. Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

Military intervention is to be considered when all else fails.

I would hope that we have in place the adequate resources to become an army of occupation because you’re going to walk into chaos

… the financial cost of a [military] strike isn’t a reason to acquiesce in mass murder in Syria.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

We don't go to war to protect Pizza Hut or Burger King or some other things, some of the nonsense I've seen on our battlefields.

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only with the Security Council.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

What is more immoral than war?

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

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.

I don't think you can perpetrate war crimes with defensive weapons, with air defense systems.

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.

It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.