Quotes About Politics

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

We can't win a war, but we can win an election.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

A world without war is not in the cards.

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.