Barack Obama Quotes

Although I voted against the initial resolution approving the war in Iraq, I have consistently voted to support our troops with much-needed armor and supplies.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will.

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace.

Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

Any great war must be a popular movement.

This wretched war in Iraq which we never should have started, we don’t seem to be able to win, and we don’t know how to get out of …

Restrain our citizens from embarking individually in a war in which their country takes no part …. How desirable, then, must it be in a Government like ours to see its citizens adopt individually the views, the interests, and the conduct which their country should pursue, divesting themselves of those passions and partialities which tend to lessen useful friendships and to embarrass and embroil us in the calamitous scenes of Europe.

I have no animosity towards those who object to the war. Regardless of which side of the fence you're on, just give a moment of thanks to the hundreds of thousands of our forefathers who gave themselves so we can live in a world where we can do this.

It takes patience to work with allies and to bring out the best in international organizations.

After four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, … justice, humanity, liberty and the public welfare demand … a cessation of hostilities …

This war does not strike me as a great evil. The more we are ill-treated abroad the more we shall unite and consolidate at home.

I know this country well enough to know that it can’t sustain a conflict if people do not believe in the purposes.

Be cautious not to take sides in the politics which divide the country, but pray for peace and respect the constituted authorities.