Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.
I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.
58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.
If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.
We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.
I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war, and I'll never get him back.
