Citizens Quote by Alice Walker

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs…

— Earl Blumenauer

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is…

— Alice Walker

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with…

— Sherrod Brown

As a rich country, we can, in some sense, "afford" the war. But spending money on the war means that we are not spending…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been…

— Jim Cooper

A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.

— Michael Baumgartner

Imagine yourself as a wife, and you have to look at a brain-injured husband for the rest of your life, and he can't talk…

— Daniel Inouye

If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

— Woody Guthrie

In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes - and nonessential…

— Robert Hormats

“This war ends, then so do the taxpayer-funded contracts, the drumbeats in the media, the nice Combatant faces, and the patriotic cause to lull…

— S. J. Kincaid

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human…

— Bernie Sanders

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

— Samuel B. Pettengill