John Kasich Quotes

[Vladimir] Putin trampled on international rules and sovereignty of the Ukraine.

I would not want to be a leader of a country that had launched ICBMs against the United States.

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Word War III is about to start and we cannot change the position on Vietnam.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

The world must not reward aggression.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

The distinction between preparations made with the intention of going to war and preparations against attack is it true distinction, clear and definite than the mind of those who build up armaments. But it is a distinction that is not obvious or certain to others. The moral is obvious: it is that that armaments lead inevitably to war.

Whenever peace—conceived as the avoidance of war—has been the primary objective of a power or group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community.

Any idea that you can have a league for security is nuts, and all people who favor it are potential murderers… as long as man is man, there will be war and the only way to avoid trouble is to have the best army and navy, which we now have.

Have not the small Powers reason to fear that they will be victims in a subsequent conflict into which they will be dragged against their will in spite of their policy of indisputable independence and of their firm desire for neutrality? Are they not liable to become the subject of arrangements reached without their having been consulted?