Jason Kander Quotes

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

As we've seen, deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense. Countries typically don't want foreign soldiers in their cities and towns.

Any future Defense Secretary who advises the President to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined.

Good presidents, people like George Bush, they SEND people to war. They don't bring them a rescue. This is America. We rescue insurance companies and banks.

I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War.

I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense.

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.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

War is failure of diplomacy.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

If I had 50,000 additional troops here now, I believe I could substantially close the [civil] war in two weeks.

I am too realistic to believe in pacifism. But, nevertheless, the use of force should always be the last resort.

I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called nation-building. I think our troops ought to be used to fight and win war.

Sometimes there is no substitute for military action.

A fatal mistake in war is to underrate the strength, feeling and resources of an enemy.

We have to deal with it diplomatically if we can, militarily if we must.

It’s not only time to It is time not to take force off the table… It is time to put force on the table and use it

When I was in government, what we would used to mystically call 'the kinetic option' was way down on our list. In my personal thinking - in my personal thinking, I need to emphasize that - I have begun to consider that that may not be the worst of all possible outcomes.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

This whole concept of boots on the ground, we've got a phobia about boots on the ground. If our military experts say, we need boots on the ground, we should put boots on the ground and recognize that there will be boots on the ground and they'll be over here, and they'll be their boots if we don't get out of there now.

Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.

I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate.

[To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

Going to war is an easy decision.