Commander In Chief Quotes - Page 2

• If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, Real, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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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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• 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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• 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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• So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Military

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Bill Clinton is not my Commander in Chief.

  Oliver North

  Bills, Clinton, Chiefs

  "North Draws Fire for Comments on Clinton Military Policy" by Richard L. Berke, www.nytimes.com. October 11, 1994.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, Safety, Soldier

  "A War on Terror by Any Other Name" by John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2009.

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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 the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

  Christopher Bond

  Years, Vermont, Kind

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.

  George W. Bush

  Mom, War, Golf

  "Iraq Prompts President Bush to Give Up Golf". www.npr.org. May 16, 2008.

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• For those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, it is a call of duty to take back America from a Commander-in-Chief that is incapable of understanding the sacrifices that have been made for the values that have made America great.

  Ryan Zinke

  Taken, Sacrifice, America

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• You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.

  Newt Gingrich

  Flip, Chiefs, Commanders

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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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