Bill Maher Quotes

Disarmament requires trust.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

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

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

I saw our bombs as political resources for peace.

There appears to be almost no way in which the deployment of military force ... could be brought rationally to bear upon the decision of any of the political, economic, emotional or philosophical issues by which men still remain divided.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

People versed in politics need not be told that the devil is in the detail, and tough solutions implying the use of force cannot produce a lasting long-term settlement.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

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

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.