Stephen Colbert Military Quotes

Quotes about: Military

• There was sort of a negative association with the military. Maybe growing up in the South or being in a family with members of the military, I didn't have that negative connotation, but I did have this 'separate' connotation. I was ashamed to realize I had it and did not realize I had it until I was [in Iraq]. I was so impressed by the people I met over there and there was just a sense of connection and gratitude towards those people.

  Stephen Colbert

  Gratitude, Growing Up, Military

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Usually when Donald Trump wants to keep someone out of military service, he just fakes a doctor's note saying he has a foot injury. It worked fine for him during Vietnam.

  Stephen Colbert

  Military, Fake, Injury

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement his brilliant plan [on screen: Operation 'Greet Us As Liberators']. It was so simple: Go in with 100,000 troops, topple the regime, everybody loves us, and we leave by Easter 2003. These ex-military men have their right to their opinions, that's fine. They just shouldn't voice them during a war [on screen: 'Loose Lips Sink Approval Ratings']

  Stephen Colbert

  Easter, War, Military

• Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.

  Stephen Colbert

  Military, Dawn, Ships

• There is a residual sense for me, having grown up in the early '70s, that I did not know I had, which was a sense that the military are different than I. Because there was such a divide between the military world - and there still is, because there's no draft - and the civilian world is one of the rotten harvests of the Vietnam War, was this sort of bifurcation of America in that way.

  Stephen Colbert

  Military, War, America

  Source: www.wbur.org

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