Bill Clinton Quotes

I have done all I can to prevent wars. All my life I've been dedicated to preventing just what has happened today.

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

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.

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.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

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

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

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

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

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.

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.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

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.

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

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.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

War is failure of diplomacy.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.