John Boehner Quotes

Woe to the statesman whose reason for entering a war do not appear so plausible at its end as at its beginning.

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

Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq. Iraq was disaster.

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.

Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right, and you turned out to be wrong.

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

When you go to war, you have to build bipartisan support and then you have to sustain it.

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

Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war.