Barbara Cubin Quotes

The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

Twenty five years in Washington has taught me never to tell a lie to a reporter.

When you go to war, you have to build bipartisan support and then you have to sustain it.

Misunderstanding is the great enemy of every White House press secretary.

Our job is to bash the President.

I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

I've covered Israel just as I cover other politics.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq 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.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America seems to have no problem with that.

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.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

The press has a tendency to focus on what politicians disagree on.

Every organization has men and women who will be sure that the news gets out when it is good news. The problem is with the bad news. That is the challenge of democracy

You cannot let America’s destiny be determined by a bunch of foreign journalists.

Our country is being bled daily in an effort to create a democracy in a place where it never existed.