Quotes About Policy

I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.

We still seek no wider war.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

With the shock of war the state comes into its own again.

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

I definitely believe in legalizing drugs. It does take the mystery away. It takes the money away, so suddenly there are no drug wars. If you're a junkie, you can get help easier.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?