What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
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 political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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.
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.
