3 December 2020 Leon Panetta After every major conflict – World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
3 December 2020 Fareed Zakaria During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
3 December 2020 John Podhoretz The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel’s existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
3 December 2020 Wendell Phillips What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
3 December 2020 William Westmoreland We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.
3 December 2020 Jay Leno The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow ‘Operation Re-elect Bush’ doesn’t seem to be popular.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Abu Abbas We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
3 December 2020 Prince Andrew When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920’s and 1930’s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother’s keeper.
3 December 2020 George McGovern When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
3 December 2020 William Westmoreland I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
3 December 2020 Rand Paul I tell people I won’t vote to go to war unless I’m ready to go or send my kids.
3 December 2020 Jessica Savitch You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
3 December 2020 Tom Cruise I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter 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.
