Caspar Weinberger Quotes (9 Quotes)

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission.

Under no circumstances should we now ease our restrictions on arms sales to Iran. Such a policy reversal would be seen as inexplicably inconsistent by those nations whom we have urged to refrain from such sales, and would likely lead to increased arms sales by them and a possible alteration of the strategic balance in favor of Iran while (the Ayatollah) Khomeini is still the controlling influence.

is a very minor matter, but made very important. ... It was made far bigger than its actual importance.

He is saying that we should hand over power to the United Nations, ... The United Nations is totally incapable of doing any kind of job as pacifying or removing terrorism from a country like Iraq.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

just a lot of criticism and pessimism.

I think women are too valuable to be in combat.

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.