Blank Quote by Edward Kennedy

“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.”

— Sandra Day O'Connor

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

— Jim McDermott

The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.

— Alan Alda

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

— John F. Kerry

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the…

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

— Ted Cruz

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A state department official once told me this about the role of the president. He said: "We wage war for realist reasons, we justify…

— Michael Hastings

Every US President has to have a war.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

— Robert Reich