With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

If you’re low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn’t seem entirely fair.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we’d think it’s a pretty serious problem. In fact, we’d probably go to war.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They’re trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that.