Michael Ledeen Quotes

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

You give us the mission, we can get ‘em. We’ll rout ’em out. When we’re through with them, they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.

Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.

If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

If we had not driven them into hell... hell would have swallowed us.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

We did not start a fight with America, and we don't want a war with America. If someone launches an attack, though, we will respond. We will not take rejection or humiliation. We do not want to fight.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.

Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

You should be prepared to be bombed back to the stone age.

This will be a war of extermination.

Power politics is another name for the law of the jungle.

People are violent by nature. That’s why we rule the earth; we beat the crap out of everyone else.

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