George W. Bush Quotes

For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon shots.

You can't get a diplomatic solution unless behind that, is the threat of force.

We can't just pop off and drop a bomb on North Korea and think everything's going to be OK. It just doesn't work like that. It's a complicated puzzle.

Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

Power alone is respected and ... in order to gain peace, the United States has no alternative but to wield it

We ought to nuke North Korea right about now just to give the world a warning.

Foreign policy works best when force and diplomacy are used together.

One of the great advances of our time is the recognition that one of the ways to prevent war is to deter it by having the will and the capacity to use force to punish the aggressor.

If I am elected President I will immediately issue an ultimatum to the leaders in Chechnya. If they do not capitulate within 10 days, Chechen villages and the entire Chechnya will be covered with blue clouds of smoke from missiles and projectiles.

Deterrence, of course, is all about the perception of power. It hinges on convincing adversaries that, with force, guile, or economic isolation, you can make the think twice about acting against American interests.

It [the treaty with Algeria] has been dictated at the mouths of our cannon..

Our adversaries no long fear us, and our enemies are plotting against us.

North Korea is really just the kid who decided he'd be 'all out crazy,' hoping people would be scared off by the tirades and avoid stepping up to the plate.

When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.