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.
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
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.
The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.
We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
