Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood"

Allen Weinstein, Public Servant

"War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war"

Amelia Earhart, Aviator

"We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have, they would've killed 300,000"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of Parliament"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... Everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam, the international community must act to enforce its will"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities, and spent time with the people, and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war, and talked about why they had come back"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel"

Natan Sharansky, Writer

"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, Director

"There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"We can end the climate wars"

Anthony Albanese, President

"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, Activist

"You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq"

Sherrod Brown, Politician

"The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture"

Sherrod Brown, Politician

"Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front"

Hjalmar Schacht, Economist

"No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals"

Joseph Heller, Novelist

"The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world"

Sherrod Brown, Politician

"So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution, because part of her defence was to question legality, and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again, and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal"

Clare Short, Politician

"The fact is that we wouldn't be in Iraq if it weren't for Democrats like Senator Kerry"

Howard Dean, Politician

"Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter"

Howard Dean, Politician

"But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly"

Clare Short, Politician

"So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method"

Benjamin Netanyahu, Leader

"No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

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