Lupe Fiasco Quotes

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

I don’t care how precise your bombs and weapons of war are. When you set them off, innocent people will die.

Russia has the right to deliver preventive strikes against bases of bandits, wherever they are located, including the territory of Chechnya.

… the financial cost of a [military] strike isn’t a reason to acquiesce in mass murder in Syria.

We are at war and, like it or not, that is a fact. It is not Bush's war, and it is not Obama's war. It is our war, and we can't run away from it.

Bombing Syria will achieve nothing.

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

In time of war the laws are silent.

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

During war, the laws are silent.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

War is failure of diplomacy.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

… the first armed aggression which the world has seen since the end of the war.

Even in matters of defense—the purpose for which government was instituted among men—no government can promise any longer that it can protect civilians and that they are not going to be harmed by war.

We have won an armistice on a single battleground, not peace in the world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

The next time you or one of your fellows plans to mention civilian casualties in North Vietnam, I want you both to come down and have a drink with me before you go to testify on The Hill.