168 Quotes by Wesley Clark

It ’s really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.

The safety of our country demands an end to the doctrinaire, ineffective policies that currently grip Washington. Enough is enough! A safe America – a just America – that’s what we want, that’s what we need.

I’m spiritual. I’m religious. I’m a strong Christian and I’m a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go to the Catholic church too. I take communion. I haven’t transferred my membership or anything.

We’ve proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we’ve changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that’s now very focused on the battlefield.

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work.

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn’t come out to the public.

I’m pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.

The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won’t work. We have to be the party that can stand toe to toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as the party of compassion.

I don’t think you can solve what’s going on in Iraq unless you can deal effectively with the region and you can’t deal effectively with the region if you start with the premise that you can’t talk to people who disagree with you.