Action Quote by Ahmed Rashid

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

— Samantha Power

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

— Silvio Berlusconi

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but…

— Fareed Zakaria

Intervention is necessary when war is not an option...

— Melchor Lim

I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the…

— Henry Kissinger

If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and…

— Helmut Schmidt

With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense reforms without…

— Pete Hegseth

Not every action requires military action. As a matter of fact, military action is the very last resort for us.

— George W. Bush

We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger…

— Patrick V. Murphy

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

— Kyrsten Sinema

I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned against us…

— Charles W. Freeman, Jr