Harry Reid Quotes

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

Americans have learned that it is harder to end wars than it is to begin them

We’re not going to need as many people to do peacekeeping as we needed to fight the war.

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

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.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

A war is only as good as the peace that follows.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

Wars are seldom won as quickly as everyone expects, and almost always create far more problems than they solve

I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

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 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.

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

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

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

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.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

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

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

We have won the war. Now we have to win the peace, and it may be more difficult.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.