Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

It was quite a European war until 1917 when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration especially in the Pentagon where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war with disastrous results.

Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move.

What is not conservative about saying 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

Think of what happened after 9/11 the minute before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq and so the war drums beat.