Bob Dole Quotes

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.

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

The war in Afghanistan is not of a peace with the rest of Obama's worldview. It's a holdover from the era that his election was supposed to bring to a close.

Every US President has to have a war.

People are worried about if somebody's going to say that I'm Islamophobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war. That's why I asked congress, go ahead and declare the war .

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

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

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

Any great war must be a popular movement.

A good war televises well; a bad war televises poorly.

On any big issue in government there are always going to be disagreements.