John Hewson Quotes

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.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

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

The United States will never take part in an aggressive war.

War is always an option. Peace is not.

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

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.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

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

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

War is failure of diplomacy.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.