John McCain Quotes

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

In wars, serious mistakes are made.

Mistakes happen in wars. Wars do not go well…. But we adjust.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

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.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

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

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war and that these things are easier to get into than to get out of, and, frankly, the facile way in which too many people talk about, 'Well, let's just go attack them.'

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

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.