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I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
Charles Schumer
Defense Regret Terror War
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
H. G. Wells
Dissension Men Time War Will
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.
Daniel Yergin
Iraq Loss Production War
A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won’t get a bikini wax.
Rita Rudner
Country Fight Man War Will
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
Sarah Vowell
Constitution Independence Parting Sea War
My youth passed at the time of the country’s reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
Lech Walesa
Country Enemy Nation Struggle Time War Youth
But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.
Christopher Shays
Cause Causes Illness War
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
Robert Vaughn
Actor First Hollywood Opposition Vietnam War
War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington
Act Enemy Violence War Will
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
State Tyranny War
The war on drugs is a war against the communities.
Holly Near
Drugs War
The basis of tragedy is man’s helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man’s helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
Comedy Death Disease Greed Love Lust Man Tragedy Vanity War
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We’ve had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
Maxine Waters
Change Nation People Poor Poverty War Will Years
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
Robert Mueller
Land Men Now War Women
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George Orwell
Act Self War
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan’s real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.
Hideki Tojo
War
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
Peace Profession War
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don’t pry into other people’s business.
Maya Lin
Building Business People Veterans Vietnam War
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
Edward Said
Beginning English June Life Politics Travel War
I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.
Douglass North
Beliefs June Peace War World World war
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic… That to me was funny.
Christopher Meloni
Example Funny Thought War
All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.
Alexander Henry
Nation Now War
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.
Timothy Radcliffe
Absurdity Being Genocide Truth War
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.
James Stockdale
Doubt Right War Words
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
John Foster Dulles
Ability Art War
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George Santayana
Crime Delight Merit Positive Quality War
When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
Steven Spielberg
War
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
Gertrude Stein
Dancing Walking War
The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it’s not that big of a country. Nobody, I don’t think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.
Carol Moseley Braun
Country Fact Iraq Saying War
These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.
Bob Filner
Behavior Drugs Fight Tools War
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
Germaine Greer
Advice Children Present War
The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. Kennedy
America Americans Hate Peace Want War Will World
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
Eamon de Valera
Europe Feeling Hatred Passion Promise War
The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
Ed Markey
Terrorism War
One can go to war alone, butyou can’t build peace alone.
Jacques Chirac
Peace War
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we’d all pull together.
Parker Stevenson
Patriotism People Question Today War World World war
Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn’t talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
Akshay Kumar
Emotions Novelty People Talk Terrorism War Years
A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener’s black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.
Philip Gibbs
Books France Friend Office Time War
Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
Stephen Hadley
Sense Terror War
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis
Nothing War
The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
Mac Thornberry
Challenge Terrorism Trying War
So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.
Louis Farrakhan
Control Islam War
I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Will Rogers
Nation War
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Aristophanes
Building Cities Enemies Friends Men Sense Ships War
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Intelligence War
The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.
Eric Shinseki
Army Now Today War Years
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
Neville Chamberlain
Circumstances May Nation War
Government is waging war against the people.
L. Neil Smith
Government People War
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.
Jim Walsh
Heroes Nation War
That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
Cordell Hull
Destruction Development Direction War
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