Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Pastor

Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.

Ed Markey

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

Elizabeth Dole

Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

Elizabeth Bowen

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Elizabeth Bowen

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

Elizabeth Bowen

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Who can sum up all the ills the women of a nation suffer from war? They have all of the misery and none of the glory; nothing to mitigate their weary waiting and watching for the loved ones who return no more.

Eliot Engel

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

Eleanor Smeal

Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.

Edward Heath

We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

Dominique de Villepin

I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

David Bowie

You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.

Dave Price

Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.

Dave Reichert

I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Darryl Worley

I hear people saying we don't need this war, I say there's some things worth fighting for. What about our freedom and this piece of ground, we didn't get to keep them by backing down.

David Nicholls

...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe North in Tender in the Night, and they're drinking because of a deep, unquenchable sadness of the soul, or the terrible legacy of the First World War, whereas I just get drunk because I'm thirsty, and I like the taste of lager...

David James

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

Ahmed Rashid

Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large window of opportunity to repair the damage done by 25 years of war. That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis.

Abdullah Ocalan

I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.

The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.

Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it would be better to be without it... Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion.

Abdul Kalam

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

Abdul Kalam

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Aaron Huey

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

Aaron Huey

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

Aaron Eckhart

I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

Chris Matthews

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Franco Modigliani

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Brad Pitt

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.

Dick Cheney

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.