Ron Paul Quotes

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.

I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.

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

The Democrats are the party of war.

If I am elected President I will immediately issue an ultimatum to the leaders in Chechnya. If they do not capitulate within 10 days, Chechen villages and the entire Chechnya will be covered with blue clouds of smoke from missiles and projectiles.

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

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

Sanctions are not diplomacy; they are a precursor to war.

Serbia must now be dealt with.

I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

Any jackass can talk about bombing Iran.

America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.

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

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

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.

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.