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Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

Quotes by John Abizaid

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

Quotes by John Abizaid

I have seen how payday lenders and check cashing outfits set up in towns around military bases to take advantage of young service members, whose starting salaries are barely over $20,000 per year.

Quotes by Joe Sestak

We need to transform our military forces by focusing on force posture, not force structure.

Quotes by Joe Sestak

Having served in the military, I know that militaries can stop a problem, but they can't fix a problem.

Quotes by Joe Sestak

Launching a ground war against Iran would require hundreds of thousands of troops for a 'regime change followed by nation-building' operation, as we attempted in Iraq. Iran has a much more modern military, more than double Iraq's population, and almost four times the landmass.

Quotes by Joe Sestak

I believe in national service, where you can join AmeriCorps or the military.

Quotes by Joe Sestak

We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.

Quotes by Joe Lieberman

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Quotes by Jimmy Carter

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

Quotes by Jim Walton

Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.

Quotes by Jim Webb

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

Quotes by Jerry Bruckheimer

Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.

Quotes by Jeremy Corbyn

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

Quotes by Jeffrey Sachs

I guess it's sad that anybody, regardless of profession, that they're in this country, would take a shot at our military.

Quotes by Jeff Fisher

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

Quotes by Jay London

The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.

Quotes by Jason Kander

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

Quotes by Janis Karpinski

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

Quotes by Janis Karpinski

I am not a supporter of Israel's military policy, let alone any kind of Zionist.

Quotes by James Lasdun

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

Quotes by Jalal Talabani

My military experience... I can recall so many different emotions from that.

Quotes by Jake McLaughlin

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

Quotes by Jack Schwartz

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

Quotes by Jack Reed

Rebuilding the military is something Putin will pay attention to.

Quotes by Jack Keane

If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.

Quotes by Jack Keane

The military executes policy decisions.

Quotes by Jack Keane

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

Quotes by Jack Kingston

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

Quotes by Iqbal Quadir

I love Colombia's military. I love my country.

Quotes by Ingrid Betancourt

I've do a lot of USO shows and do whatever I can to support the military.

Quotes by Iliza Shlesinger

We won't always have the strongest military.

Quotes by Howard Dean

I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

Quotes by Harrison Salisbury

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

Quotes by Harold Russell

There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

Quotes by Hari Kunzru

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

Quotes by Hans Blix

The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.

Quotes by Hank Johnson

Americans knock themselves out, especially since 9/11, praising the military.

Quotes by H. W. Brands

In modern times, the American military has become more bureaucratised.

Quotes by H. W. Brands

In the midst of the war against ISIS, we have also waged war on corruption in civil and military institutions.

Quotes by Haider al-Abadi

Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.

Quotes by Haile Selassie

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Quotes by Groucho Marx

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

Quotes by Grover Norquist

I was a military brat; we moved all around.

Quotes by Gregory H. Johnson

In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.

Quotes by Gore Vidal

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Quotes by Golda Meir

The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.

Quotes by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

Quotes by Ger Duany

Our young immigrants have a lot to offer. They are motivated and hard-working, and in many cases have already contributed significantly to our society - by excelling in school, by volunteering in their communities, or by serving in the military.

Quotes by Gerald Chertavian

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Quotes by George Washington

Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone.

Quotes by George William Norris

A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

Quotes by George Stoneman

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

Quotes by George Soros

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

Quotes by George S. Patton

In the military, the bottom line has to be the success of the mission.

Quotes by George Brauchler

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

Quotes by Garry Trudeau

I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

Quotes by Fred Korematsu

As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business.

Quotes by Fred Haise

A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

Quotes by Francis Parkman

I suffered during the military intervention of May 27, 1960, and then again on March 12, 1971 and again on September 12, 1980, and I was targeted February 28, 1997. My respect for the military aside, I have always been against interventions.

Quotes by Fethullah Gulen

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

Quotes by Ferdinand Foch

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

Quotes by Fareed Zakaria

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.

Quotes by Erwin Rommel

I'm a strong supporter of the military.

Quotes by Erik Prince

Our military shouldn't be outgunned.

Quotes by Eric Swalwell

I have a military background in my family.

Quotes by Eric Reid

I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.

Quotes by Eric Greitens

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

Quotes by Eric Alterman

The military is already sexually integrated.

Quotes by Elizabeth Edwards

Since Ronald Reagan we have had this assumption in the United States that the Republicans are the party of the military, the Republicans are the party of patriotism, the Republicans are the party of American values.

Quotes by Elissa Slotkin

Our family lives military and veterans issues in a way few others do.

Quotes by Elissa Slotkin

I come from a service family - I met my husband Dave during my third tour in Iraq serving as a CIA analyst alongside the military.

Quotes by Elissa Slotkin

Israel will continue to act proactively to prevent the transfer of heavy missiles or advanced air defense systems from Syria to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which, of course, carries the risk of a military showdown.

Quotes by Ehud Barak

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Quotes by Ehud Olmert

The issue of assault in the military is something that they've gone to great lengths to try to deal with - and have not entirely dealt with yet.

Quotes by Edward Zwick

The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue.

Quotes by Edward Zwick

My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.

Quotes by Edgar Ramirez

The president of the United States, Barack Obama, deserves the benefit of the doubt and our support in his decision to use military force in Libya.

Quotes by Ed Schultz

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

Quotes by Ed Markey

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

Quotes by Ed Case

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

Quotes by Eamon de Valera

Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations.

Quotes by Duncan Hunter

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

Quotes by Duane G. Carey

We're going to have to raise revenues in some form or fashion, and we're going to have to cut spending, including entitlements of all kind, including the military. We all know this. Lets get on with it.

Quotes by Douglas R. Oberhelman

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

Quotes by Douglas Feith

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

Quotes by Donna Leon

For all its pro-democracy rhetoric, the West rolled over to military coups in Egypt and Thailand.

Quotes by Dominic Raab

Despite egregious human rights abuses, military dictatorship in Greece, and Russian atrocities in Chechnya, no state has ever been voted out of the Council of Europe.

Quotes by Dominic Raab

The GRU is used for both tactical intelligence collection in the battlefield in support of Russian military operations and also strategic active measures or psychological warfare overseas.

Quotes by Dmitri Alperovitch

Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military.

Quotes by Dick Mountjoy

The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.

Quotes by Dennis C. Blair

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

Quotes by Debby Ryan

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

Quotes by Dean Acheson

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

Quotes by David Mackay

Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope, George W. Bush was smarter than portrayed and Barack Obama has not led a charge from the left - least of all on behalf of the civil liberties that have eroded since September 11, 2001.

Quotes by David K. Shipler

Training a reliable military force that adheres to Western norms and standards is the work of a generation, not a few months.

Quotes by David Ignatius

Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States.

Quotes by David Ignatius

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.

Quotes by David Gregory

I'm somebody who has a military background, grew up in Colorado Springs, and has been a Colorado resident basically since I was two and a half.

Quotes by Darryl Glenn

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