I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.
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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.
I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter's assessment of Elvis Presley's appeal - 'energy, rebelliousness and good humor' - is remarkably close to the mark.
I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.
What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.