War Quotes
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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One single war - we all know - may be productive of more evil, immediate and subsequent, than hundreds of years of the unchecked action of the mutual-aid principle may be productive of good.
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You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.
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As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
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States Rights died at Appomattox.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of ways, he - as a character - was even larger than his presidency. Being able to get to know him well, that firsthand relationship with this large character, I think is what drew me to writing books about presidents.
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Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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War was a catalog of madness.
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I am at war with the obvious.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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Mars is not an aesthetic God.
