Action Quote by Barack Obama

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved?…

— Marsha Blackburn

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

— George W. Bush

As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years…

— Ann Wright

“It is not realistic to put legal constraints on war powers. Law works through general prospective rules that apply to a range of factual…

— Eric A. Posner

The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.

— Jill Stein

Not every threat to America's national interests can be addressed with military power.

— Richard N. Haass

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not…

— Anonymous

I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to the rights…

— John Yoo

Most US presidents since World War II have led military actions without a declaration of war by Congress, though most, if not all, have…

— Donald Rumsfeld

In my view, the military action taken in Iraq in 2003 was not lawful under international law because there was no U.N. resolution expressly…

— Keir Starmer

War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is not the…

— Maude Royden

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

— Daniel Ellsberg