“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”– H. L. Mencken Related Quotes “The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.”– Madeleine Albright “The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney’s friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said ‘Yes.’”– Conan O’Brien “Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.”– Donald Rumsfeld