Isoroku Yamamoto Quotes

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

If there is going to be a war – and no one can say that there is not – we must keep him fresh to be our war Prime Minister

We were reconciled to the fact that we would have war with Russia…. If the war had not come now, we would have had it in two years time under worse conditions…. No one could have foreseen that militarily not everything would work out as one had believed.

At times we will have mutual interests with Mexico, but at times we will not.

We've mismanaged going into Iraq.

As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.

In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.

There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.

One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's moves.

We've had to pull out of so many countries in Northern Africa.

I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens.

Those who want peace should prepare for war and be strong.

Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

I will not be drawn to building relations with the Syrian regime, which does not want me.

In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.

What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by doing so, introduce into our defense vulnerabilities based on self-delusion.

We have always argued that attempts to isolate Belarus, like other countries, lead to a dead end. In this situation, everyone loses.

The United States is deeply concerned by Turkey's announced intentions to begin offshore drilling operations in an area claimed by the Republic of Cyprus as its Exclusive Economic Zone.

The surest way to deter adversary aggression is to fully prepare for war.

We can pursue peaceful diplomacy with the Iranian regime while also continuing our maximum economic pressure campaign, while also defending ourselves... To say that it's a war with Iran or nothing is just a fundamental misunderstanding of how foreign policy actually works.

I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.

Our nation's military is effective because it is nonpartisan, relies heavily on science and technology, and takes the world as it is, not as it wishes it to be.

I'm not sure whether a person can really gauge the quality of his work by the enemies he's made, but if I somehow upset Hamas and the Taliban and Henry Waxman, I must have done something right.

India-Pakistan war and romance have always been sensitive issues for film-makers in both the countries.