John Boehner Quotes

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.

Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

There are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it

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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Nations drift into wars.

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.

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

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.

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

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

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.