Preet Bharara Quotes

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

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

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

The Democrats are the party of war.

The English people would never consent to go to war for a cause in which England was not manifestly interested.

When another country assists terrorists, it is an act of war.

The next time some neocon, demanding whatever military intervention neocons are demanding that day, invokes Hitler or Munich or appeasement, lock up your silver.

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

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute..

We can’t always pick and choose which conflicts were going to get into.

I would not have gone into Iraq.

Any jackass can talk about bombing Iran.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

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

You can’t undo a thousand years of history by sending military troops into a country.

From the very beginning, the American republic has never shrunk from foreign wars …. There has scarcely been a year since its founding that American soldiers haven’t been overseas … American foreign policy largely consists of doctrines about when and where to intervene in other people’s countries.

Do we really want a world in which every country feels entitled to attack any other that might someday threaten it?

I certainly am not willing to involve the country in a foreign war for the object of acquiring Texas.

induce me to aid them in their unholy and execrable design of manufacturing a war with Mexico.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

Be very careful of military action. You will be judged by how it ends—not by how it begins.

If the United States were attacked by rockets from one of our neighboring countries, we would be a lot tougher on them than Israel has been on the Palestinians. When we were attacked, we sent an army abroad and took over Afghanistan from the Taliban.

By invading Iraq, the President has undermined the War on Terrorism.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.