Harry Reid Quotes

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

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

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

Nothing is gained by military occupation. All occupations are failures.

All wars are mishandled.

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

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

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Going to war against Iran - whether one calls such a move 'surgical' or 'total' - would be an extremely serious undertaking; with worldwide economic, military, diplomatic and human ramifications in both the short- and the long-term.

War is failure of diplomacy.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.