Commander In Chief Quotes - Page 2

• A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Should, Chiefs

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Confused, Quality, News

  5 Copy quote

• We need to have a commander-in-chief who knows what she is doing.

  John R. Allen

  Needs, Chiefs, Knows

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.

  George W. Bush

  Men, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the leader of the Executive Branch, the Commander-in-Chief, the spokesperson for the nation, but the influence and the work that we have is the result not just of the president, it is the result of countless interactions and arrangements and relationships between our military and other militaries, and our diplomats and other diplomats, the intelligence officers and development workers.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Leader, President

  "Report: Obama Holds First News Conference Since Election". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2016.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges that confront him is after he has sat down with his advisers as the commander in chief, when he's looking at the threats and the intelligence from the standpoint of being the number one decider, when he's hearing from his secretary of defense, his chairman, who was the same chairman President Obama had, Chairman Joe Dunford, who is an outstanding public servant, who has led our anti-ISIL effort, on which we're making great progress.

  Samantha Power

  Thinking, Numbers, Effort

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think if Donald Trump should become commander in chief, we all want that in a leader, somebody who is able to fight back.

  Robert Jeffress

  Fighting, Thinking, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, People, Safe

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2012

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The president of the United States is the commander in chief, and the people who work with him at the National Security Council are his arm in working with the Defense Department. And, quite frankly, they have responsibility for all of the government. We are one component of the government.

  Chuck Hagel

  Responsibility, Government, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you look at the way Donald Trump has treated law enforcement, if you look at the way he's treated the military, this is a man who fully understands the burden of leadership and the responsibility he has as the commander in chief.

  Sebastian Gorka

  Military, Responsibility, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

  Sarah Palin

  War, Islamic, Winning

  Source: www.today.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What we need to do is ensure that we don't create an environment that puts us on a track conceivably where the United States military finds itself in a civil military crisis with a commander in chief who would have us do illegal things.

  John R. Allen

  Military, Illegal Things, Track

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We saw more evidence that [Doanld Trump] is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief. He trash-talked American generals, saying they had been, quote, "reduced to rubble," that's how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us. That's how he would act as commander-in-chief.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Sacrifice, Men

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would let the military commanders give the commander in chief options rather than tell them what you want to hear. Not having gotten those options, I can't tell you if we are going to have boots on the ground but certainly, a more expanded role for the special operators would be essential. And being more effective in strikes as it is relates to the air.

  Jeb Bush

  Military, Air, Giving

  "Jeb calls Obama comment linking climate change to terrorism 'perhaps the most ludicrous comment I've ever heard'". www.dailymail.co.uk. November 25, 2015.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• One can look at John McCain and say that he's not ready to be commander-in-chief.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Looks, Chiefs, Ready

  Republican National Convention Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To wage war, we need a commander in chief who has made tough calls in tough times and stood up to be held accountable over and over, not first-term senators who've never made an executive decision in their life.

  Carly Fiorina

  War, Tough Times, Decision

  Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the things I would immediately do [as Commander in Chief ], in addition to defeating them here at home, is bring back the warrior class - Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. Every single one of these generals I know. Every one was retired early because they told President [Barack] Obama things that he didn't want to hear.

  Carly Fiorina

  Home, Warrior, Class

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The war against ISIS will pose many new challenges for the next commander-in-chief. The last two presidents [George W. Bush and Barack Obama] pursued a Middle East policy that supported toppling dictators to try to promote democracy.

  Wolf Blitzer

  War, Isis, Two

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As commander in chief, I will not speak to Vladimir Putin until we've set up that no-fly zone; until we've gathered our Sunni-Arab allies and begun to deny ISIS territory; until I've called the supreme leader of Iran and told him new deal - new deal. We the United States of America are going to cut off the money flow, which we can do; which we don't need anyone's permission or collaboration to do.

  Carly Fiorina

  Cutting, Isis, Iran

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Clinton's team used a technology called BleachBit, which is basically acid, and this is going to acid wash her emails. Who would do this? She claims she couldn't recall important information on 39 separate and different occasions. She can't even remember whether she has trained in the use of classified information. And she said she didn't know the letter C means "confidential" or at least "classified." If she can't remember such crucial events and information, honestly, she's totally unfit to be our commander-in-chief, totally unfit.

  Donald Trump

  Team, Mean, Technology

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Americans are at war with radical Islamic terrorism. We are at war with the ISIS caliphate, and what we need is a commander-in-chief who knows that, who understands that, who will give our military the resources they need to make that fight, pull our allies together - including moderate Arab nations - and hunt down and destroy ISIS and other terrorist organizations at their source.

  Mike Pence

  Military, War, Islamic

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States. We did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Thinking, Long

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

  Joe Biden

  Giving, Use, Able

  "Pelosi Vows 'No Blank Check' on Iraq War". "All Things Considered" with Allison Keyes, www.npr.org. January 7, 2007.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source