Action Quote by Barack Obama

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

— Anonymous

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

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

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

— Asne Seierstad

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

— Benjamin Carson

Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.

— Barack Obama

That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.

— Indira Gandhi

Contrary to what some believe, taking all reasonable and feasible precautions to protect civilians - and mitigating the resulting anger when we harm them…

— Patrick Leahy

Everyone in the military rightly accepts that when individuals break the rules there must be consequences and personnel should face the full force of…

— Gavin Williamson

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

Actions have consequences.

— Morton Blackwell

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

— Samantha Power