I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.
If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.
War is failure of diplomacy.
To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.
My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.