Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didnt work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably wont work for you either. – Jon Meacham
Killing Japanese didnt bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal. – Curtis LeMay
With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how youre gonna get out of it. Its like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When youre acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling. – John Cusack
I remember the 80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time. – John Cusack
The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our me generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture. – Gus Van Sant
Americas veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to todays Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. – Bill Shuster
I cant go to war with paparazzi. – Daniel Craig
I would have voted no on the Iraq war and yes to Afghanistan. – Rand Paul
Im a writer. I dont support any war. Thats my principle. – Haruki Murakami
I can tell you this: If Im ever in a position to call the shots, Im not going to rush to send somebody elses kids into a war. – George H. W. Bush
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, youd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. – George H. W. Bush
There arent a lot of guys like me left. But Im a war horse. Ive been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going. – Joel Silver
President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken ODonnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. – Kevin Costner
Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe thats their gift. – Denzel Washington
New terms used like, overseas contingency operation instead of the word war – that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We cant spin our way out of this threat. – Sarah Palin
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries arent civil war, they are democracy at work, and thats beautiful. – Sarah Palin
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britains belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. – James Buchan
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixons urgings for me to go there. – Sammy Davis, Jr.
My youth passed at the time of the countrys reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. – Lech Walesa
If it hadnt been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space. – James Lovelock
