Quotes
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- Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, and our votes have been counted.
- We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.
- The time has come to make the difficult decision. Charity begins at home. We can no longer afford to rebuild Afghanistan and America. We must choose. And I choose America.
- A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.
- The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.
- This is not idealism or naiveté. It's a hard-headed recognition that a genuine peace is the only path that will ultimately provide for a peaceful Palestine as the homeland of the Palestinian people and a Jewish state of Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people.
- Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America — in lives, treasure and standing — that it will take a generation to work through.
- Leaders who wage wars are disconnected from their people.
- The fact that we are leaving most of the shooting to other countries does not mean that the United States is not involved in acts of war
- We have for too long, as a Congress, been too passive when it comes to sending our young men and women to war.
- Paying for our veterans is a cost of war. War is expensive.
- Waging war is the most serious business our nation does.