Noah Feldman Quotes

The Democrats are the party of war.

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

Whenever there is talk of peace, there is anger in the military- industrial- political complex.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

I've never understood why anyone would want to join the army, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that, as long as we go on voting in governments who are prepared to take troops into an illegal war, that army is a necessity.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.

I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

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.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

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

There is always going to be dissention between the Pentagon and Congress.

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

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

War is too serious a matter to be entrusted to generals.

If war were declared tonight and I went on a talk show, the first question would be about abortion.

There is no issue of greater importance to the U.S. Senate than war and peace.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.