Air Force Quotes - Page 7

• I had a great family. My father was in the Air Force, so we were always disciplined, goal oriented.

  Thomas Jones

  Father, Air, Goal

  Source: www.menshealth.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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• We have sacrificed and we have endured extreme hardship, but we have maintained the key goal - we have denied the enemy its main objective of creating two political geographies in this country through the all-out war which has been unleashed against us. If we had a first-rate air force, the nature of the conflict would be completely different.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, War, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• 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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• The boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something to the effect of how it felt to be dropping bombs on children in Vietnamese villages. And it got very icy in there all of a sudden, and finally the teacher said, "Oh, well, Eric reads a lot of newspapers. Next question."

  Jello Biafra

  Teacher, Children, Real

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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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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• 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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• But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.

  Rick Perry

  Blessing, Air, Texas

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

  Ron Reagan

  Airplane, Airline Business, Flying

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• During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

  Melissa Bean

  Travel, Fall, Air

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• This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.

  David Petraeus

  Military, Fighting, Air

  "Kevin McCarthy talks Iraq, future of the GOP; latest on IRS scandal". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 22, 2014.

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• There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

  Daniel Inouye

  Fundraising, World Government, Air

  Iran-Contra Hearings Closing Statement, www.danielkinouyeinstitute.org. August 03, 1987.

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• In view of the result of attained at the Washington Treaty which, my advisors believe, guarantee peace in the Pacific for some time to come, it is proposed to reduce the establishment of the navy and army, and postpone the expansion of the air force.

  Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster

  Military, Believe, Army

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• By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

  Barack Obama

  Memorable, Air, Navy

  Remarks by President Obama at the University of Queensland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2014.

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• ...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death would save a single human life or benefit humans in any way at all; but the same can be said of millions of their experiments performed each year in the United States alone.

  Peter Singer

  Army, Animal, Years

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• This report has been difficult to write because it involves something that doesn't officially exist. It is well known that ever since the first flying saucer was reported in June 1947 the Air Force has officially said that there is no proof that such a thing as an interplanetary spaceship exists. But what is not well known is that this conclusion is far from being unanimous among the military and their scientific advisors because of the one word, proof; so the UFO investigations continue.

  Edward J. Ruppelt

  Military, Writing, June

  Edward J. Ruppelt (2011). “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: The Original 1956 Edition”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about Unidentified Flying Objects

  Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter

  Believe, Air, Flying

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• During my long investigation of these strange objects, I have seen many reports verified by Air Force Intelligence, detailed accounts by Air Force pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers proving the UFOs are high-speed craft superior to anything built on Earth.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Air, Long, Crafts

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• I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Air, Mexico

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• It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I can't tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors concerning a captured UFO and crew members. I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have.

  Barry Goldwater

  Intelligent, Air, Ohio

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