David Rothkopf Quotes

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

War is failure of diplomacy.

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

The shortest way to peace is the most stupendous and unanimous preparation for war.

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

It is easier to begin a war than to end one, which is why the decision to start a conflict should not be entrusted to the person who wages it. Post‐war presidents have abandoned this wisdom.

If you don't want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.

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 am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Diplomacy was the only protection we had against war; and its achievements were of the utmost importance and value to the human race.