Quotes About Policy

The Iraq war was not necessary.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

Iraq was a war of choice, not necessity.

I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.

Barak Obama initially opposed [war in Libia].

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

Democracies don't go to war.

U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to "declare war.

I think when war becomes your life, I think its very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

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

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.