Quotes About Politics

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.

War is the health of the state.

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.

The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally and definitively cured only if he is first liberated.

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.