War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

A siege is an act of war.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

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.