This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.