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

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

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

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

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

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

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.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

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 think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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.

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.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

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

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

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.

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

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

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

War is what happens when language fails.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

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

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

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.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

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

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

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

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

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

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

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

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.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

People like to talk about war.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.