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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

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

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

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

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

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

One can go to war alone, butyou can’t build peace alone.

Jacques Chirac

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

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

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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