The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

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

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

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

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

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the ‚crimes against the peace‘ for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Morality is contraband in war.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

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

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

In every country except – industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That’s one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there’s no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Saddam’s goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Laws are silent in time of war.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

A siege is an act of war.

I love being in the United States Senate.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.