Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leslie Cockburn

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

Leonard Peikoff

Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.

Len Deighton

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

Lemmy Kilmister

People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.

Lee Myung-bak

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury

Lee Krasner

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.

Lawrence Eagleburger

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

Lawrence Halprin

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

Lawrence Block

Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

Larry Craig

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.

Larry Elder

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

Larry Elder

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

Larry David

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Kyle Busch

Fair is fair; all love is war.

Neil Sheehan

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

Neil Sheehan

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

Neil Sheehan

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

Neil Postman

When media make war against each other, it is a case of world- views in collision.

Vannevar Bush

It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.

Vannevar Bush

On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.

Vannevar Bush

Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

Vanna Bonta

Poverty and War have no excuse.

Vanna Bonta

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Vanna Bonta

A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.

Vanna Bonta

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

Vaclav Havel

Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.

Vaclav Havel

The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.

V. E. Schwab

You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.

Tulsi Gabbard

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

Tulsi Gabbard

I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.

Tucker Max

It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.