Military Quotes - Page 27

• The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

  Russ Feingold

  Iraq, Administration, Budgeting

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• The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

  Tommy Franks

  Mom, Country, Growing Up

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• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Israel, Cities, Citizens

  Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.

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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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• It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.

  Al Yankovic

  Peace, War, Special

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• [M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of alien organisms, to which the body responds by its own military operations, such as the mobilizing of immunological "defenses", and medicine is "aggressive" as in the language of most chemotherapies.

  Susan Sontag

  Health, Medicine, Defense

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• Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Spirit, Defence

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.53

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• We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

  David Hackworth

  War, Media, Enemy

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• The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

  Russel Honore

  Fire, Years, America

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

  Darrell Issa

  Uncles, Father, War

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• When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

  Abdallah II

  Running, Pieces, Status Quo

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• In 1913 many believed that there would never again be a war in Europe. The great powers of the continent were so closely intertwined economically that the view was widespread that they could no longer afford to have military confrontations.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  War, Views, Europe

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• The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

  Kim Jong-un

  Country, Might, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

  Sebastian Junger

  Men, Numbers, Leader

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• Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

  Mike Jackson

  Campaigns, Friction, Operations

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• There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.

  Peter James

  Years, Police, Hierarchy

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• Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

  Jon Krakauer

  Guilty, Investigation

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• Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

  John M. McHugh

  America, People, Connections

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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