Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"For years, we have heard warnings that Europe needs to contribute more to NATO's capability"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks"

Dean Rusk, Diplomat

"The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks"

Dean Rusk, Diplomat

"We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

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

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"Now, Al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing"

Lawrence Korb, Writer

"A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid, but none of which should take precedence over national security"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Let him who desires peace prepare for war"

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Writer

"Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world"

George Galloway, Politician

"What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"

Isoroku Yamamoto, Soldier

"With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention"

Lawrence Korb, Writer

"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain, I will run wild and win victory upon victory"

Isoroku Yamamoto, Soldier

"We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security"

Lawrence Korb, Writer

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