“No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.”

“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.”

“America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.”

“I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.”

“It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.”

“I am a war president.”

“Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.”