Madeleine Albright Quotes

There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

The next President's National Security Advisor ought to be an economist, instead of the usual military officer or arms control expert.

The Mutual Security Act was intended not to fight a war but to prevent a war.

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

Wars should be over in three days or less... and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right, and you turned out to be wrong.

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

There is no issue of greater importance to the U.S. Senate than war and peace.

You have repeatedly asserted that you and the German people have no desire for war. If this is true there need be no war. Nothing can persuade the peoples of the earth that any governing power has any right or need to inflict the consequences of war on its own or any other people save in the cause of self-evident home defense.

One war at a time.

The European NATO Counties are not interested in being liberated after 6 months of fighting on their territory. They are only interested in preventing the initial attack.

Political considerations can be taken into account only as long as they do not make demands that are militarily improper or impossible.

It is just as important to define the limit beyond which we will not intervene as it is to convince our people that we cannot find security in an isolationist party.

When you are Commander in Chief, you should keep all your options on the table.

Blair overestimated his ability to influence U.S. decisions on Iraq.

President Obama's greatest failure is his failure regarding foreign policy and national security.