Air Force Quotes - Page 5

• We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Air, Rome, Target

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• We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  War, Army, Government

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• My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

  Tracy Austin

  Mom, Dad, Air

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• Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

  Evan Parker

  Air, People, Musical

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• I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Thinking, Government, Air

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• The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a once in a generation chance to change the world for good, to avert catastrophic climate change. In the end they produced a poor deal full of loopholes big enough to fly Air Force One through.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Men, Airports, Cities

  "Meaningful Agreement: Obama Says ‘A First Step’ Climate Deal Has Been Reached In Copenhagen" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to him minutes before, stood in his presence on Air Force One.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Air, President, Identity

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• The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist -- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

  Thomas Friedman

  Marine, Army, Technology

  "A Manifesto for the Fast World". www.nytimes.com. March 28, 1999.

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• I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

  George Lansbury

  War, Army, Air

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• Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than life itself. This gallant Air Force hero will be remembered because he made his final contribution to aviation in the dangerous role of test pilot of an untried experimental plane, a deed that places him among the stout-hearted pioneers who gave their lives in the conquest of sky and space.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Hero, Sky, Space

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• Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

  John Amery

  Air, Three, Arms

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• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  Wally Schirra

  Dad, Airplane, Hands

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• The Air Force is pulling nine cargo aircraft from military operations to support President Obama's stepped-up visits to campaign events. Good, now he can carry his entire ego with him on the trail.

  Fred Thompson

  Military, Air, Support

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• I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

  Pam Grier

  Country, Gay, Air

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• Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought, and several thousand gave their lives. We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Hero, Home, Knowing

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• We will build an Air Force of at least 1,200 fighter aircraft, which the Heritage Foundation again has shown to be needed to execute current missions. We now have 1,113. Not enough. We will also seek to develop a state-of-the-art missile defense system.

  Donald Trump

  Art, Air, Foundation

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime.

  Barack Obama

  Air, Challenges, Done

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.

  Rick Joyner

  Military, Army, Air

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• I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

  Jerry Doyle

  Air, Years, Fishing

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• When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

  Robert M. Gates

  Air, Directors, Drones

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• After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

  Ivor Novello

  War, Air, Pilots

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• My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

  Jeremy Northam

  Dad, Home, Sacrifice

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• I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.

  Burt Rutan

  Fun, War, Airplane

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• I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

  Mel Tillis

  Air, Okinawa, Passed Away

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• 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.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Military, Air, Order

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