Military Quotes - Page 22

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  Kamisese Mara

  Two, Fiji, Ordeals

  Report to President Ganilau, May 15, 1992.

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• The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Science, People, Genius

  "The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Science". Book by Theodore von Karman, p. 268, 1967.

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• I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

  Janis Karpinski

  Running, Mps, Support

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• Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

  Richard Leakey

  Distance, Police, Borders

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• A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation.

  Ben Bova

  Civilization, Space, Race

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• I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  War, Alliances, Doe

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• I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

  Fred Korematsu

  Unconstitutional

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• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  Jack Kingston

  College, Class, Everyday

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• I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

  Robert Kagan

  Believe, Thinking, Luxury

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• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

  Walter Kohn

  Summer, School, Years

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• My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Trophies, Usefulness, Values

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

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• The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

  Martin McGuinness

  Car, Facts, Elements

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• What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.

  Peter MacKay

  Government, People, Justice

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• If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

  Rachel Maddow

  America, Maintaining, Financial

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• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

  Rachel Maddow

  Preparedness, Form

  "'Drift': Rachel Maddow On Why We Go To War". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 7, 2012.

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• To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

  Dean Norris

  Nice, Guy, Police

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

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• I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  People, Shooting, Rooms

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• To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

  Leo Ornstein

  People, Precision, Exciting

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• Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

  Kevin Powers

  Spiritual, Taken, Risk

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• 2.2 billion worth of military equipment had been stripped from U.S. Forces in West Germany and America and shipped to Israel in an unprecedented day and night airlift.

  George Scratchley Brown

  Night, Israel, West Germany

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• I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

  Barbara Lee

  United States, Action, Terrorism

  Statement in Opposition to H.J. Res. 64, delivered 14 September 2001

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• Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

  Barbara Lee

  War, Years, Nine

  "Afghanistan War Review Conclusions Misguided" by Barbara Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

  Donna Leon

  Antagonism, Particular

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• I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Thinking, Giving, Soldier

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• From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.

  Bev Perdue

  Strong, Bridges, Class

  "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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