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I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
Robert Capa on war

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
Werner Herzog on war

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
Robert Capa on war

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
John Bolton on war

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
Hamid Karzai on war

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
John Bolton on war

But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
Hamid Karzai on war

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
John Bolton on war

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
Dougray Scott on war

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.
Eric Liu on war

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
Nicolas Sarkozy on war

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
Condoleezza Rice on war

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
Lindsey Graham on war

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
Maxine Waters on war

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
Friedrich Durrenmatt on war

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
Carroll Quigley on war

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
Charles Schumer on war

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.
Charles Schumer on war

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
William Westmoreland on war

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
Arthur Henderson on war