“Sound, sound the trump of Fame! Let Washington's great name Ring through the world with loud applause; Let every clime to Freedom dear Listen with a joyful ear. With equal skill, with god-like power, He governs in the fearful hour Of horrid war, or guides with ease, The happier times of honest peace.” WorldWarNamesSoundHoursHonestTrumpFameSkillsEqualEarsDearGuidesRingsEaseLoudFearfulJoyfulApplauseHappier Times Author:Joseph Hopkinson
“Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!” WarBigsSpiritQualityVirtuePrideTrumpCircumstancesAmbitionEarsGloriousRoyalFarewellStirringTranquilBannerPiercings Author:William Shakespeare
“Donald Trump got in some trouble for saying that John McCain is not a war hero, and said, 'I like people that weren't captured.' Not good. In fact, Trump's people are telling him to lay low for a while until this all combs over.” PeopleSaidWarFactsTroubleTrumpHeroLowsLaysCapturedMccainCombsWar Hero Author:Jimmy Fallon
“What I`m starting to think of as the mythical beast of the Republican establishment, which is the sort of inchoate idea that we keep talking about what they`re going to do and it never seems to have much impact or be manifest in very visible ways, obviously, it is one thing for Donald Trump to have taken a shot like he did early in his campaign at John McCain, calling him not a war hero.” ThinkingWayIdeasWarSeemsTalkingTakenOne ThingTrumpHeroCallingRepublicanShotsImpactStartingCampaignsBeastVisibleManifestEstablishmentMccainKeep TalkingWar HeroMythical Beasts Author:Rachel Maddow
“I will not sleep fine if Donald Trump wins and I will not sleep fine is Hillary Clinton wins. Whether you are looking at nuclear weapons, whether you are looking at expanding wars and their blowback, which will not stop as long as those wars continue to expand, or whether you're looking at the climate, in my view, we have no choice. This is an existential moment. We are deciding not only what kind of world we will have, but whether we will have a world or not. I think it's very important to get outside this box that tells us we are powerless, when in fact, we are powerful.” IfsThinkingWorldKindLongImportantWarMomentsFactsChoicesWinningSleepViewsPowerfulFineTrumpWeaponsClintonClimateBoxesNuclearNuclear WeaponsExistentialPowerlessExpanding Author:Jill Stein
“I think you have to take the man at his word [Donald Trump]. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. He moved on to denigrating John McCain's heroism during the Vietnam War. He has gone after people with disabilities. He has said Muslims should be kept out of our country. He certainly has gone after individual women in the media, in the political arena.” PeopleThinkingMenShouldKindSaidWarCountryPoliticalOpportunityIndividualGoneMediaHe ManTrumpCallingEqualMovedCriminalsOur CountryImmigrantsDisabilityVietnamHeroismArenaMexicanVietnam WarMccainMoved OnEqual OpportunityPeople With Disabilities Author:Hillary Clinton
“On the campaign trail, [Donald] Trump has threatened a trade war and repeatedly said that Mexico will pay for a wall on the Southern border.” SaidWarPayWallTrumpTradeCampaignsBordersSouthernMexicoThreatenedTrails Author:Steve Kornacki
“[Donald] Trump is the only Republican candidate in the last seven cycles to understand all three legs of the foreign policy stool - the three crucial elements of our foreign policy, what they need to be - and they are trade, war, and immigration.” NeedsWarLastsThreePolicyTrumpRepublicanElementsTradeSevenLegsImmigrationCandidatesCyclesCrucialForeign PolicyStoolsThree Legs Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There have been candidates who've been right on trade but wrong on the other two, right on war but wrong on the other two, right on immigration but not interested in the other two. It is this writer's belief that [Donald] Trump is the first one to come along, despite what a big buffoon everybody says he is. He is the only guy that's put his finger on the problems and the comprises and the areas that need to be addressed in order to owe direct the route which our country is traveling.” NeedsFirstsHas BeensTwoWarCountryProblemBigsGuyOrderBeliefTrumpAreasDirectTradeFingersImmigrationDespiteOur CountryCandidatesNot InterestedRoutesBuffoons Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Hillary [Clinton] is - you know, she's every bit as much scary on war as Donald Trump is.” KnowsWarBitsTrumpClintonScary Author:Jill Stein
“Hillary [Clinton] has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his.” WarWholeTrumpProgramClintonClimateFasterDamageFracking Author:Jill Stein
“I think what Mr. Trump has made clear is that he would not undertake optional wars, what I have called wars of choice, a la, say Iraq in 2003 or Libya, for the purposes of transforming another country. It's not clear whether Hillary Clinton, if she were to have the opportunity, would do such a thing again or whether she would have taken a - the lesson from both Iraq and Libya that we ought not to be undertaking those kinds of wars of choice.” IfsThinkingKindMadeWarCountryPurposeChoicesOpportunityTakenClearOughtTrumpLessonsClintonIraqTransformingUndertakingsLibyaOptional Author:Richard N. Haass
“I saw Donald [Trump] saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I'd blow them out of the water and start another war. That's not good judgment.” IfsKnowsSaidWarWaterSawsTrumpJudgmentBlowShipsIranSailorIranianTauntingGood Judgment Author:Hillary Clinton
“[Donald Trump] even said, well, you know, if there were nuclear war in East Asia, well, you know, that's fine have a good time, folks.” IfsKnowsWellsSaidWarFineTrumpFolksEastNuclearGood TimesAsiaHaving A Good TimeNuclear WarEast Asia Author:Hillary Clinton
“Donald [Trump] never tells you what he would do. Would he have started a war? Would he have bombed Iran? If he's going to criticize a deal that has been very successful in giving us access to Iranian facilities that we never had before, then he should tell us what his alternative would be.” IfsGivingShouldHas BeensWarWould BeDealsSuccessfulTrumpAccessAlternativesIranCriticizeFacilityIranian Author:Hillary Clinton
“Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more nations have nuclear weapons. He's said Saudi Arabia should get them, Japan should get them, Korea should get them. And when he was confronted with this and told, wait a minute, terrorists could get those, proliferation could lead to nuclear war, here's what Donald Trump said, and I quote, go ahead, folks, enjoy yourselves.” IfsWorldShouldBelieveSaidWarNationsWaitingEnjoyMinutesTrumpWeaponsFolksNuclearTerroristJapanNuclear WeaponsKoreaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisNuclear WarProliferation Author:Tim Kaine
“We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with the congress and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.” WorldWarEndsNumbersMilitaryTrumpProjectsCongressWar Of The WorldsTroopsSmallestLowestNavySecond World WarAmerican Strength Author:Mike Pence
“You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites, and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters, because they want to create a war between us.” WantLooksWarUsedTrumpTerroristFighterPropagandaSiteRecruit Author:Hillary Clinton
“The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist.” IfsKnowsWarWealthTrumpTaxesClaimsClintonIraqPredictableAmazing ThingsIraq WarTease Author:James Fallows
“As for LGBTQ people supporting Donald Trump (or other Republicans), I do understand that some of them value his stances on immigration, climate change (I should say "the war on coal"), and the economy over those of equality, fairness, and justice.” PeopleShouldWarValuesJusticeEconomyTrumpRepublicanClimateClimate ChangeImmigrationFairnessCoalStance Author:Steven Petrow
“The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines.” WarMediaTheoryTrumpCostPressesConservativeAliensTonightConspiracyBubblesObamacareHeadlinesConspiracy Theory Author:Chris Hayes
“[Donald] Trump was born on June 14, 1946, less than a year after the first and, thus far, only nuclear weapons were used in war.” YearsFirstsWarUsedBornTrumpWeaponsNuclearNuclear WeaponsJune Author:David Krieger
“I think we're coming to a place where we're saying all war is wrong. We might even learn something about the sensationalism we get caught up in with people like Donald Trump.” PeopleThinkingWarMightTrumpCaughtCaught UpSensationalism Author:Dar Williams