Cindy Sheehan Quotes (154 Quotes)

Cindy Sheehan, the Gold Star mother who lost her son in Iraq and who has spent the last month perched outside the Crawford ranch like Poe's raven, almost sounds like she pities George in her latest dispatch from Camp Casey. Since the Freedom and Democracy thing is not going so well, ... and the Iraqi parliament is having such a hard time writing their constitution, since violence is mounting against Iraqis and Americans and since his poll numbers are going down every day, he had to come up with something.

I don't want him to justify my son's honorable sacrifice to continue his murderous killing policies, ... Late Edition.

It's pretty obvious what's been happening since August. It's miraculous. The American people were on board. Now it seems like more of our leadership are getting on board.

What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?

The president says he feels compassion for me, but the best way to show that compassion is by meeting with me and the other mothers and families who are here. All we're asking is that he sacrifice an hour out of his five-week vacation to talk to us, before the next mother loses her son in Iraq.

I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong. I'm not one of the immature patriots who say my country right or wrong because my country is wrong now, and my country-the policies of my country are responsible for killing tens of thousands of innocent people, and I won't stand by and let that happen anymore.

Every time Bush talks he should be removed from office,

My issue is not Republican or Democrat, not right or left. It's right and wrong.

Lawyers in Washington (D.C.) are working on that right now. It should be filed next week.

What they're saying, too, is like, it's OK for Israel to have nuclear weapons. But Iran or Syria better not get nuclear weapons. ... It's OK for Israel to occupy Palestine, ... for the United States to occupy Iraq, but it's not OK for Syria to be in Lebanon. They're a bunch of (expletive) hypocrites.

We need to stop the war in Iraq, we need to bring our troops home immediately. We need to see George Bush and the rest of them tried for crimes against humanity. We need justice for our children.

We're committed to keep going until our troops are brought home, and after that, to make sure this never happens again for the young people who are here, for our unborn grandchildren and born grandchildren,

In a way, I wish he weren't the president, just so I could talk to him all the time.

I want to ask the president, why did he kill my son He said my son died in a noble cause, and I want to ask him what that noble cause is.

If he thinks that it's so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go this war. They need to fight.

I can't say that I will regret the experience. I met some very interesting women.

You know what I would have said 'What noble cause did my son die for'

It's not patriotism when you say my country, right or wrong,

I now know he's sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis. I know he's sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he's a man of faith.

That lying bastard, George Bush, is taking a five-week vacation in time of war, ... tells me why my son died in Iraq. I've got the whole month of August off, and so does he.

We're never going to let him have another vacation in peace again.

We need to bring our troops home immediately, as soon as possible,

I don't believe dying in a war of aggression on a country that's no threat to the United States of America is a noble cause.

We'll be the checks and balances on this out-of-control, criminal government.

I was never told that I couldn't wear that shirt into the Congress. I was never asked to take it off or zip my jacket back up. If I had been asked to do any of those things...I would have, and written about the suppression of my freedom of speech later.

Seems lak haf' the country be plumb crazy.

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

I said, 'Trust me, you don't want to go there', ... He said, 'You're right, I don't.' I said, 'Well, thanks for putting me there.'

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

I'll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son, ... I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home.

I sympathize with Mrs. Sheehan. She feels strongly about her position. She has every right in the world to say what she believes. And I've thought long and hard about her position. I've heard her position from others, which is get out of Iraq, now. And it would be a mistake for the security of this country and the ability to lay the foundations for peace in the long run if we were to do so.

If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.

I don't think aggression on a country that was no threat to the United States is noble.

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.

A lot of these people who are there are criminals, and we need to get them out of our house,

It was a joy and privilege to stand with so many people who support this woman and her cause. Even in a steady rain with umbrellas in one hand and candles in the other, Alaskans came together to show compassion and concern for a fellow citizen from afar. If only every day we would join together and support one another, perhaps we wouldn't need to be at war. Compassion and kindness can be contagious wouldn't that be a joyful epidemic to witness

This Camp Casey movement is bigger than me. It's growing, it's bigger than any of us.

We are here ... to show our government, to show our media, to show America that we mean business, and we're not going home until every last one of our troops is home.

The deceptions and betrayals that led to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq cost my family a price too dear to pay and almost too much to bear, the loss of my boy Casey.

I look back on it, and I am very, very, very grateful he did not meet with me, because we have sparked and galvanized the peace movement, ... If he'd met with me, then I would have gone home, and it would have ended there.

If I thought that running for Senate would bring our young people home more quickly I would do it in a minute, but I am not convinced that that would do so.

I kind of see their point that this was a grassroots thing that grew into a monster.

It's remarkable that in a 27- day period Crawford has stood for something other than war. It has stood for peace.

Right now, I am focused on the workers here. They are worried about their future.

I believe Mrs. Clinton is a brilliant woman who has a lot on the ball, but to characterize her as one of the leading liberals in Congress is absolutely false. With her position as a senator she's become more 'let's see which way the wind blows, and what's going to get me re-elected or elected, or how am I going to benefit from this,' instead of truly voting from her integrity.

became an angel while I was sleeping.

We're going to do what we do all the time gather together in peace. We're going to call for George Bush and the neo-cons not to invade Iran. That would be a mistake even worse than Iraq. Our children are sitting ducks in the Middle East the people of Iran and Iraq would be sitting ducks. And I'm not even sure that this invasion won't lead to World War III. So it's something that we have to stop before it starts.

Our country does not really know what war is about.

I plan on returning to Camp Casey very soon, ... But while I'm in Los Angeles, please respect that my sister, brother and I are here focusing on our mother, while the moms in Crawford focus on Bush. The president is not off the hook.

not to give them a timeline.