Charles Krauthammer Quotes

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

I’m not opposed to all wars; just dumb wars.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

It’s not a very nice solution, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war

Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace.

Nations drift into wars.

I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.