Wesley Clark People Quotations

People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.

I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat's blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can't imagine the civic outrage.

I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it's not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it's the soldiers: it's the people at the front, the mechanics with their wrenches, the drivers moving the logistics back in the rear.

More than half the American people now believe that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake, ... They're right. But it would also be a mistake to pull out now, or to start pulling out or to set a date certain for pulling out. Instead we need a strategy to create a stable, democratizing and peaceful state in Iraq - a strategy the administration has failed to develop and articulate.

I think what you have to understand about the armed forces, ... it's a competitive bureaucracy. People enter it at the bottom and they come out at the top. There's a lot of gossip. There are some sharp elbows in there,

My opponents on the inside have said that the American people shouldn't hold them responsible for everything that happens because we don't understand how things work in Washington,

You can buy as much TV as you want in New Hampshire, and we'll certainly do our share, but there's no substitute for being up there. People really want a candidate who's going to talk about them, not about his opponents, not about George W. Bush. You'll see a lot of these conversations Clark is having are about them,

It has to be this way, and these people have to be a part of modern Europe. That's what they want to do and I believe they will achieve that status.

You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.

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.

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.