Commanders Quotes - Page 11

• I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on.

  Christopher Vokes

  Believe, Fighting, Sitting

  "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 182), 1985.

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• What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Boss, Effort, Around The World

  "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• To date, we've arrested or otherwise dealt with many key commanders of al Qaeda... All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way - they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Fate

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• 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

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• We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy and moral psychology. As a result, we understand better why moral formulas are experienced as ineluctable commands, even if there is no commander and even if the notion of an inescapable obligation is just superstition. So moral philosophy has made huge progress.

  Catherine Wilson

  Philosophy, Psychology, Progress

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 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

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• I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Decision, President

  Source: time.com

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• One of the things that's very troubling to voters about Donald Trump is his erratic behavior, his lack of good temperament to serve as commander in chief.

  Robby Mook

  Erratic, Voters, Behavior

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's one of the reasons [Vladimir Putin invitation to U.S] why 50 national security officials who served in Republican information - in administrations have said that Donald [Trump] is unfit to be the commander- in-chief. It's comments like that that really worry people who understand the threats that we face.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Worry, Information

  Source: time.com

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• I trust Hillary Clinton as president and commander in chief, but the thought of Donald Trump as commander in chief scares me to death.

  Tim Kaine

  Scare, President, Clinton

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after hundreds of confiscations of property of landlords, officials and tax collectors, he owned only his blankets, and a few personal belongings, including two cotton uniforms. Although he is a Red Army commander as well as chairman, he wore on his coat collar only two Red bars that are the insignia of the ordinary Red soldier.

  Edgar Snow

  Army, Years, Two

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Home

  Source: genius.com

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• Why do soldiers fight? They join because they believe in a higher cause -- protecting religion, their nation, defending against a foreign nation. But why do soldier stay and fight? Soldiers aren't individuals. They are part of a unit. And that unit is led by a commander. If they don't trust their commander ... if there is no leadership, there is nothing.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Leadership, Believe, Fighting

  "What's wrong with the Iraqi army?" by Ashley Fantz, www.cnn.com. May 26, 2015.

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• I call George W. Bush a radical because he is undertaking a fundamental transformation of our Constitutional system of government and of our longstanding policies that have been accepted for literally generations. He thinks to concentrate unaccountable power in the Executive. He thinks you alter the laws so that, as Commander in Chief, he can determine, under what he says are wartime conditions, what the laws are, which laws should be enforced, and declare by fiat what our policy should be, even abrogating longstanding international treaties.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Thinking, Law, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Donald Trump is just unfit, unprepared, just doesn't get it, shouldn't be the commander in chief of America.

  Julian Castro

  America, Trump, Chiefs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

  Lindsey Graham

  Thinking, Understanding, Challenges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

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• One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Leader, Doe

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for.

  Rand Paul

  America, Chiefs, Whatever It Takes

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• We need a president who understands the first obligation of the commander-in-chief is to keep America safe. If I am elected president, we will hunt down and kill the terrorists. We will utterly destroy ISIS.

  Ted Cruz

  Isis, America, President

  Ted Cruz at the second GOP debate at the Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Donald Trump would be a chaos president. He would not be the commander in chief we need to keep our country safe.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, President, Would Be

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

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• I believe we should work and want to have the most powerful military, but hope we never have to use it. I strongly believe the military should know they are 100 percent supported by the commander in chief.

  Phil Roe

  Powerful, Military, Believe

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• We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to put more faith in military leadership who have all of the combat experience. It’s bad policy to try to micromanage too much operationally and tactically from a desk in the Oval Office.

  Lee Zeldin

  Military, Office, Trying

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.

  David Corn

  War, Caring, Waste

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• We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may justly expect from him, unless we know what he is, why he is, and by whom he is made to be what he is.... I cannot know how to obey unless I know in what, and to whom; nor in what unless I know what ought to be commanded; nor what ought to be commanded unless I understand the original right of the commander, which is the great arcanum.

  Algernon Sidney

  May, Obedience, Made

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