Action Quote by John Yoo

The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the…

— John Yoo

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

The Constitution is designed to inconvenience one person from taking us to war. War is a very solemn and sobering and extraordinary act, and…

— Ron Dellums

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

— Eugene McCarthy

When you invade Grenada, or when you invade Panama to capture a disreputable person, or when you bomb the Bosnia area, you can always…

— Jimmy Carter

When we look at how, constitutionally, only Congress can declare war, and that is routinely ignored. Not NATO or the UN, but Congress has…

— Edward Snowden

The congressional role in declaring war is especially important not when the United States is the victim of an attack, but when the United…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

— Henry Kissinger

“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 use of our military in combat should first require declaration of war. I have long called for reinstating the military draft, simply because…

— Charles Rangel

Every US President has to have a war.

— Mikhail Gorbachev