Rodney Frelinghuysen Quotes

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

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.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

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

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

If we give Al Haig his way, the next thing we know, we'll be carpet-bombing Central America.

Local conflicts can have global consequences.

This Middle East thing is maddening.

What starts in the Middle East never stays in the Middle East..

I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

President-elect Donald Trump has a host of national security challenges to deal with as he assumes office, from the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the grinding Syrian civil war to the flexing of Russian muscles under President Vladimir Putin to how to deal with ISIS as the terrorist army retreats in Iraq.

Iran is the base of an axis of evil which is a problem for all the world.

Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to transfer Israel's northern front to the axis of evil.

I guess we're all supposed to get used to living in a more dangerous world.

Another mess I inherited, and we have imposed new sanctions on the nation of Iran who has totally taken advantage of our previous administration, and they're the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and we're not going to stop until that problem is properly solved, and it's not properly solved now.

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.