Wesley Clark Quotes (55 Quotes)


    The positive and negative indications right now are that Milosevic has made a half compromise and he is still defying the will of the international community on other issues,

    I will strengthen them so that we can solve problems together, so that the use of military force is our last resort, not our first, and if America must act with force we can call on the military, financial, and moral resources of others.

    It has to be this way, and these people have to be a part of modern Europe. That's what they want to do and I believe they will achieve that status.

    More than half the American people now believe that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake, ... They're right. But it would also be a mistake to pull out now, or to start pulling out or to set a date certain for pulling out. Instead we need a strategy to create a stable, democratizing and peaceful state in Iraq - a strategy the administration has failed to develop and articulate.

    No administration has the right to tell Americans that to dissent is disloyal and to disagree is unpatriotic.


    We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield,

    You can buy as much TV as you want in New Hampshire, and we'll certainly do our share, but there's no substitute for being up there. People really want a candidate who's going to talk about them, not about his opponents, not about George W. Bush. You'll see a lot of these conversations Clark is having are about them,

    On April 12, 1999, missiles blasted apart a passenger train in southern Serbia, killing at least 10 people and wounding sixteen. NATO acknowledged it had targeted a rail bridge considered an important military supply line. But there was a train on the bridge at the time of the attack. We certainly don't want to do collateral damage, ... The mission was to take out the bridge. He realized when it had happened that he had not hit the bridge, that what he hit was the train.

    He also has his hands still on the sinews of power in Serbia. He controls the army, he controls the police, including a very effective and brutal secret police network, ... He controls the media, and he controls the economy and finances.

    It's all smoke and mirrors designed to hide the stark fact that he has no real plan for our future,

    I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.

    We've hit at his power plants because they're essential to running every part of his military machine, ... and this has proven to be effective.

    One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.

    I did accept the Lord as my savior when I was 5 years old.

    We made a huge mistake trying to restrict press coverage in the first Gulf War because of our Vietnam mentality. We had a 1st Armored Division tank battle that was just incredible, perhaps the biggest armored battle ever, but not a single image was reported or documented for history by the press. I hope we don't make that mistake again.

    calls for pulling back the tax cuts for those Americans that are making 200,000 a year and above, and using that money in a way that will advance our national interest. It's creating jobs. It's focused like a laser beam on job creation.

    before I made the decision to run. ... I said I'm not really not interested in even talking about it.

    George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

    My opponents on the inside have said that the American people shouldn't hold them responsible for everything that happens because we don't understand how things work in Washington,

    It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe-to-toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as being the party of compassion.

    When you raise the alert level, you've got to do it in a way that you're explaining and laying out as much as you can about why it is that you're doing it, what you hope to achieve from it, ... Late Edition.

    People of every ethnic group and religious persuasion have got to be given the right to live here,

    And if that makes me an 'old-style' Democrat, then I accept that label with pride and I dare you to come after me for it.

    Our goal remains the same, to change the direction of our country and bring a higher standard of leadership to the White House, ... And there is no party more committed to that effort and there is no party more committed to the people than this party, my party, the Democratic Party.

    Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

    He should be fired. When someone makes comments like that, that are so obviously racially prejudiced. We don't tolerate that in modern American society. We certainly didn't tolerate it in the U. S. Army and we don't tolerate it here. It's wrong.

    The war in Iraq is a struggle for the soul of America, ... Of all the things that surprised me was how committed ordinary citizens were to give of themselves in order to get the right people in public office.

    Just looking at the environment, the breakdown in Iraqi defense system, and the fact that we're in there in that urban area, we're not a good target for the use of chemical weapons even if Saddam could throw them at us, and I think the guess would be he can't at this point,

    He had a well-organized plan and he pursued it in a criminal and certainly an inhumane and tragic manner. And now that everybody is on the ground here, we're finding more and more evidence of this.

    We are watching with increased concern the spiral of violence as a result of what appear to be deliberate Serb decisions to move ahead toward a military solution.

    It's a whole set of communities which have been devastated, ... And what you see when you look at this is a widespread systematic pattern of ethnic cleansing. It's a familiar pattern over the last 10 years.

    We begin this process in New Hampshire as an underdog. Having said that, he has a good profile for the state, ... It's a state where success is really linked to your ability to appeal to independent voters and working class Ds. With his background, he can appeal to both of those groups.

    because I believe in open, honest government, where we hold our leaders accountable.

    Here, someone actually shoved me out the way to get to my own fund-raiser, and no it wasn't Al Gore, ... Actually there is only one endorsement I care about, and it's from all of you.

    I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

    We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

    It was a pilot flying somewhere in the area that day who saw something I thought was incredibly powerful as he described it. I saw the whole video tape and we had a picture of the pilot he was pointing it out on the map. I did not want to release it because we had not finished the investigation,

    and we're working now to see that they're deployed within an effective and unified chain of command.

    He's going to run on the idea that he's the commander-in-chief, that it's about his patriotism, that he kept us safe after 911, ... The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy.

    We're very concerned about the safety and welfare of the three soldiers, ... We've all seen their pictures. We don't like it. We don't like the way they were treated, and we have a long memory.

    I want our country to succeed, but that doesn't change the fact that we began a war that, in my view, wasn't necessary,

    I've done more with a better plan for jobs here in eight days than this president's done in two and a half years,

    As president of the United States, my top priority will be to keep America safe. We're going to go after the terrorist networks. We're going to go after Osama bin Laden. We are not going to live in fear in this country.

    This is a guy who will fly halfway around the world for a photo opportunity, but he won't (go) halfway across town to honor American servicemen being buried in Arlington National Cemetery,

    all of the operational assets that he requires in terms of extra assets to prosecute the air campaign with maximum effect.

    I think the evidence of the mass graves is confirmation of the terrible wrong done here.

    I think what you have to understand about the armed forces, ... it's a competitive bureaucracy. People enter it at the bottom and they come out at the top. There's a lot of gossip. There are some sharp elbows in there,

    Staying the course is not a strategy, it is just a slogan. ... We have a long way to go before victory, or at least some measure of success, is assured.

    He couldn't dump the bomb at that point. It was locked. It was going to the target and it was an unfortunate incident we all regret. We certainly don't want to do collateral damage. The mission was to take out the bridge. He realized when it had happened that he had not hit the bridge, that what he had hit was the train.

    His campaign has used this for some time as an effort to kind of buttress his national security flank by saying I might be his running mate,


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