Military Quotes - page 14

The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country. (Norm Dicks)
My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long! View quote
Nathan Kress
We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded. View quote
Neil Sheehan
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans. View quote
Omar Bongo
Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights. View quote
Otto Schily
We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers. View quote
Otto Schily
The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force. View quote
Otto Schily
The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world. View quote
Pete Hoekstra
What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work. View quote
Peter MacKay
The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events. View quote
Piers Corbyn
We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. (Paul Cellucci)
But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf. View quote
Paul Cellucci
I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines. View quote
RJ Mitte
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it. View quote
Robert D. Kaplan
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work. View quote
Robert Jay Lifton
Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign. View quote
Robyn Hitchcock
We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future. View quote
Ron Kind
We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching. View quote
Ralph Regula
No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression. (Rashid al-Ghannushi)
As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees. View quote
Solomon Ortiz
It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. View quote
Solomon Ortiz
In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target. View quote
Stephen Hadley
Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration. View quote
Steve Buyer