Barbara Boxer Quotes

America and Israel share an unwavering commitment to democracy and shared values.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

A world without war is not in the cards.

We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

All nations must come to the decision to renounce force as a final resort of policy. If they are not prepared to do this, they will cease to exist.

The great questions of the day are not to be decided by speeches and majorities ... but by iron and blood.

Honoring the identity and the special heritage of each nation in the world, we shall never use our strength to try to impress upon another people our own cherished political and economic institutions.

Killing is evil ... All countries are different and progress should be achieved by peaceful means wherever possible.

The cause of world peace is much more important than any individual.

Force alone cannot build the world that we seek

What repeated follies are those repeated wars! You do not want to conquer and govern one another. Why, then, should you be continually employed in injuring and destroying one another? How many excellent things might have been done to promote the internal welfare of each country; what bridges, roads, canals, and other useful public works and institutions, tending to the common felicity, might have been made and established with the money and men foolishly spent during the last seven centuries by our mad wars in doing one another mischief! You are near neighbors, and each have very respectable qualities. Learn to be quiet and to respect each other's rights. You are all Christians.

The most important rule of the new Europe is: There must never again be violence in Europe.

We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.

In every democracy, it is the people's will that is supreme. We should translate the intense yearning of the people of India and Pakistan for friendship into meaningful measures of cooperation in every walk of life.