Norman Lear Quotes

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

I think it is essential that America does not stumble into a stupid war with Iran.

I know you Americans want a war but I'm not going to let you have it.

America has wearied of Middle East War.

The United States will never take part in an aggressive war.

Nations drift into wars.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.

I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

She [Hillary Clinton] wants to start an air war over Syria with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.

America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.

If past behavior is any indication, we're in a lot of trouble with Hillary Clinton in the White House, as well, who has promised to start a no-fly zone in Syria, which amounts to a declaration of war against Russia.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

I'm hopeful that after Iraq, those in charge will think twice about taking us down that route again.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

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.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.