Don Young Quotes

I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But it's possible I won't be able to get along with Putin.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

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.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

As a member of Congress, I'm often reminded that in baseball, as in diplomacy, you have to know when to hit, when to run, and when to show grace.

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.

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.

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

The idea that democracies never make war on each other rests on very thin historical ice.

I am voting for this war so as not to be disloyal to President Bush.

Politicians didn’t want to talk to their constituents about body bags that would be coming back.

My speech has to have some substance to it. I don’t care if we make a peace treaty or declare war or something. Otherwise, they’re going to run us out of town.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

The Congress is the place where ordinary mortals go about the business of compromise—of compromise that gets us through the day.