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. John Podhoretz
Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. John Podhoretz
And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. Shelby Foote
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. Smedley Butler
I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late. Imelda Marcos
When there's a war, people get married. Doris Lessing
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. Doris Lessing
You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor. John Mayer
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. Elizabeth Bowen
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts. Mao Zedong
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Zedong
Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach. Herman Cain
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. Ezra Pound
We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. Joni Mitchell
And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. Dick Gregory
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. Tony Benn
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. Toni Morrison
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself. Henry A. Wallace