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There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the 'talking to your enemy' approach is to equate talking with appeasing.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

The government never does anything successfully.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.