Robert Jeffress Quotes

We have told the Iranian regime countless times, do not confuse President Trump's strategic patience with weakness.

We should have communicated to Iran that we are prepared, that we are considering military options. They're not just on the table, they are in our hands.

In a new interview, Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated that the U.S. has no plans to attack Syria or Iran. After hearing this Donald Rumsfeld responded, 'Like he'd know.'

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. However, our responsibility in the face of a growing ISIS threat is not to be paralysed by history, but to learn the correct lessons from it.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

The Congress decides when to make war and the President decides how to make war.

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

The Pentagon is always going to be the last to want to intervene. It is up to the civilians to tell us what they want to do and we’ll figure out how to do it.

To be a great president you have to have a war. All the great presidents had their wars.

In war ... diplomacy is the handmaiden of the necessities of the War Office.

As Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, in time of war, I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy.

If you are going to be a wartime president, you have to have the characteristic of being able to be very, very hard.

Candidates for president are always leery of war, but presidents are also Commanders in Chief and have a different perspective…. Presidents are more martial and candidates more peace-loving.

If there is going to be a war – and no one can say that there is not – we must keep him fresh to be our war Prime Minister

Are we going to start a war, the end of which we cannot see?

Deterrence is a strategy for combining two competing goals: Countering an enemy and avoiding war.

One active campaign, a smart action, and burning two or three their towns, will set everything to rights.

Military action without political context is ineffective.

I think there are real dangers to escalating military conflict with ISIS, and we need to be aware of them. But at the same time, you have to understand, you know, that this whole thing started with Bashar al-Assad and how he is the one who continued to escalate against the people of Syria who were trying to get democratic reform.

We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place.

If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.