Scott McClellan Quotes

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

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.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

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.

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

Germany is organized not only for war but for peace. We are organized for nothing except party politics.

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

Military action without political context is ineffective.

When I was defense minister, I was very popular, and now that I'm president, I'm unpopular because I'm trying to make peace. It's much easier to make war and get trophies.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

I supported the Iraq resolution, but that was not an approval of war in Iraq and certainly was not approval for an occupation of Iraq.

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

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 should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

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

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.