Air Force Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doing.

  Howard Zinn

  Air, Europe, Bombs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Children, Military

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Being a Dodgers fan led to my first Air Force court-martial, but that's another story.

  George Carlin

  Air, Fans, Stories

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• You walk into Air Force One. It's like a surreal experience, in a certain way, but you have to get over it, because there's so much work to be done, whether it's jobs or other nations that truly hate us. You have to get over it.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Hate, Air

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• It's not as "cheap" as it's put out to be. One predator drone in one day of activity supposedly needs 168 people... to carry out the day's operations... They crash a lot. So when you calculate their costs, consider that the Air Force has said about a third of their drones have crashed.

  Medea Benjamin

  Air, People, One Day

  Source: progressive.org

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• In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fashion, Gay, Men

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• What was the invasion of South Vietnam, for example, in 1962, when Kennedy sent the Air Force to bomb South Vietnam and start chemical warfare? That's aggression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Air, Invasion, Example

  Source: progressive.org

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• When I went to Harvard Law School I became interested in the connection between legal standards for safety and automobile engineering design. At that time, it was all blamed on a "nut behind the wheel," so-called, the driver. But I knew that the vehicle had a great deal to do with that because I had come across some Air Force-sponsored studies at medical schools. The Air Force found they were losing more men on the highways than in the Korean War.

  Ralph Nader

  War, School, Men

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The air strikes are important [to fight ISIS], but we need to have an air force capable of it. And because of the budget cuts we are facing in this country, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force we have ever had. We have to reverse those cuts, in addition to the cuts to our Navy and in addition to the cuts to our Army, as well.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Fighting, Cutting

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force.

  Desi Arnaz

  Uncles, Air, May

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• When we were growing up we only got two pairs of shoes every year. With me, I was lucky because I got three pairs of shoes, the third were basketball shoes: Black Air Force Ones, White Air Force Ones, and boots for the winter.

  Iman Shumpert

  Basketball, Growing Up, Winter

  Source: wwd.com

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• I believe that when we overdo our military aggressiveness, what it does it actually weakens our national defense. I mean, we stood up to the Soviets. They had 40,000 nuclear weapons. Now we're fretting day in and day - night about third-world countries that have no army, navy or air force.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Military, Believe

  The Republicans' first Presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I was always interested in drawing. As a child, I started my own country, which was called Neubern. It was located in the South Atlantic. I did the documentation of Neubern in great detail. I drew everything that was there, all the houses and all the cars and all the people. We even had a navy and an air force. I spent a lot of time drawing.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Country, Children, Air

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I got into boxing for two reasons. One was that my father was a boxer. Secondly when I was young, all healthy men in the UK had to do two years "National Service" in one of the armed forces. I chose the Royal Air Force over the Army and Navy. My father's reputation went before me and therefore the RAF encouraged me to box. There is much rivalry in sporting competitions between the Army, Navy and RAF. Competing has great privileges. I didn't need too much encouragement with all these perks being offered, so I started training with a vengeance.

  Brian London

  Encouragement, Father, Army

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• How would Trump travel as president? Obviously, he'd use Hair Force One.

  David Letterman

  Hair, President, Use

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• If you're from New York and you're Catholic, you're still Jewish. If you're from Butte Montana and you're Jewish, you're still goyisch. The Air Force is Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyisch. Rye Bread is Jewish, instant potatoes, scary goyisch. Eddie Cantor is goyisch, George Jessel is goyisch-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.

  Lenny Bruce

  New York, Marine, Air

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• Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Marine, Air, Years

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• Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.

  William Blum

  War, Men, Air

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• I grew up in the South but I started dancing in my twenties when I got out of the Air Force, and studying dance, you're surrounded by gay guys all the time. You get to know them and you have to shift gears!

  Morgan Freeman

  Gay, Air, Dancing

  "'Dark Knight Rises' Star Morgan Freeman Sounds Off on Pot Legalization, Gay Marriage" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 19, 2012.

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