Commander In Chief Quotes

• In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, Army, Two

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. As commander in chief, the president does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the president would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Self, President

  Boston Globe, December 20, 2007.

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• You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Want, Uniforms

  "Republicans rue 'dysfunctional dates'". "The World Today" with Peter Cave, www.abc.net.au. October 3, 2011.

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• In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, War, Marine Corps

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• As a commander-in-chief what you do and what you say has real consequences.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Real, Chiefs, Commanders

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief.

  Tim Kaine

  Character, Issues, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No commander in chief would ever say, "I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground."

  Claire McCaskill

  Guy, Chiefs, Commanders

  "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. July 13, 2008.

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• It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Army, Men

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• It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril.

  Joe Lieberman

  War, Years, Presidential

  "Lieberman's Iraq Views Rankle Some Democrats". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2005.

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• I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.

  Charles Dickens

  Race, Wish, India

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

  George W. Bush

  President, Way, Chiefs

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• I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, Son, Golf

  "Iraq Prompts President Bush to Give Up Golf". "All Things Considered" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. May 16, 2008.

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• My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

  Michele Bachmann

  Function, Chiefs, Ability

  "What doctors have to say about Bachmann's migraines". www.nbcnews.com. July 20, 2011.

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• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander-in-chief.

  Nathan Hale

  Order, Execution, Given

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• The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they are independent and not under the command of the president or the government. The states would control the militia, only when called out into the service of the state, and then the governor would be commander in chief where enumerated in the respective state constitution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Independent, Government, President

  "The Federalist Papers". Book by Alexander Hamilton, essay No. 69, 1787 - 1788.

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• When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.34, FastPencil Inc

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• I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

  Fidel Castro

  President, Accepting, States

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

  Howard Dean

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

  John McCain

  Jobs, Training, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.

  Jon Meacham

  Powerful, President, Tests

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• We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern. 

  Sarah Palin

  War, Winning, Law

  Sarah Palin's Keynote Address at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, www.c-span.org. February 6, 2010.

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• The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Exercise, Tasks

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• What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

  Paul Ryan

  Leadership, Political, Today

  "CNN Newsroom" with Brooke Baldwin, www.cnn.com. April 13, 2011.

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• The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate the American public to make changes that are necessary. It's not necessarily a CEO type of position.

  Rick Santorum

  Law, Trying, President

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• Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

  Elie Wiesel

  Army, Firsts, Moses

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