Madeleine Albright Quotes

Peacekeeping sometime requires killing to do the job properly..

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

… the financial cost of a [military] strike isn’t a reason to acquiesce in mass murder in Syria.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

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

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

Military intervention is to be considered when all else fails.

Be prudent in your use of military force to achieve any laudable objective.

Military force is not the first option, but it is there if needed.

What I have learned about Afghanistan is that force carries more weight than anything else.

Anybody who has experienced war will never want to do it again unless they have to. But if we’re going to do it, we have to be damn good at it.

It’s not only time to It is time not to take force off the table… It is time to put force on the table and use it

War is the continuation of politics." In this sense war is politics and war itself is political action.... It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

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.

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.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

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

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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 must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

I’m not opposed to all wars; just dumb wars.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.