Joe Heck Quotes

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

People like to talk about war.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

I told the stories of the soldiers who don’t get a vote on whether or not they are on the battlefield.

The great questions of the day are not to be decided by speeches and majorities ... but by iron and blood.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

War is politics by other means.

In my generation, thankfully, as somebody who served in the Afghanistan War, would have served in the Iraq War, if called to do so - was also strongly against the Iraq War, from the beginning - I'm so thankful that we live in a moment that we can honor the troops separately from policy.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

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

Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But our enemies have already made that choice. Retired Marine Corps General James Mattis said: “No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it's over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote“.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

War is merely a continuation of politics.

You can support the troops but not the president.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

I was against the war in Iraq.

I mean my life was a combination of fascination with other people, with politics, and with policy, and the impact of government decisions on people's lives and the life of our nation and the life of the world.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one knowing much of anything that does not does not go on in his own immediate neighborhood; but in a night engagement ( and this was the only one that occurred between great armies during the war) how could anyone know anything for certain?

What I do see is the right from the beginning that [Donald] Trump had an interest and was very persuasive in terms of talking about the veterans and needing to make changes there.

My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.

President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory.