Quotes About Policy

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

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

If we act together on the drug problem, with a comprehensive vision devoid of ideological or political biases, we will be able to prevent much harm and violence!

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.

The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?' As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?