Garry Trudeau Quotes

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.

William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

Any great war must be a popular movement.

This city has done more to supply and carry on this war than any other save perhaps Richmond. They have attacked us and our government. It must be destroyed.

Word War III is about to start and we cannot change the position on Vietnam.

In our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative

I can hardly repress our press and our people too. They are thirsting for war against England.

My home policy? I wage war. My foreign policy? I wage war. Always, everywhere, I wage war.

When a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its efforts that their utterance will not be endured.

If war were declared tonight and I went on a talk show, the first question would be about abortion.

The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

The Russians feared Ike [Eisenhower, in Korea]. They didn't fear me [in Vietnam].

Blow them [the Russians] off the face of the earth, quick, before they do the same to us. We haven't much time.

Now we are in a period which I can characterize as a cold peace.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.