National Guard Quotes - Page 2

• Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam.

  Jay Leno

  Vietnam, Hiding, Accusing

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• U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul

  David Ignatius

  Law, Iraq, Training

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard.

  Ron Wyden

  Sacrifice, States, Extraordinary

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• Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Black History, Patriotism, Tears

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• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  Camille Paglia

  Strong, New York, Military

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• Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most disgraceful, the most wicked thing I've seen in all my years of organizing farm labor.

  Cesar Chavez

  Years, People, Peaceful

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• The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Gun, Second Amendment, Citizens

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• Have you ever had any anger about President Bush - who spent his time during the Vietnam War in the National Guard - running, in effect, a campaign that does its best to diminish your service in Vietnam? You have to be at least irritated by that, or have you been?

  Dan Rather

  Running, War, President

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• The British are coming, the British are coming! Mr. President! We need the National Guard! We need as many men as you can spare because we are killing the Patriots! So call the dogs off! Send the National Guard, please! They need emergency help! Please! Help!

  Shannon Sharpe

  Dog, Men, President

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• [about sex and being married] It's like being the National Guard, we may not be seeing as much action as the front line, but we are living to fight another day.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  "Jeff Foxworthy: Totally Committed". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Centralized sounds good ... but the reality is that the National Guard and Army don't have the kind of ties with local organizations that ultimately deliver lots of service, your nonprofits, churches, humanitarian organizations. Those types of linkages get built up over time, in local communities.

  Peter May

  Army, Reality, Organization

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• The White House released documents it claims validates the president's (National Guard) service ... When deciphered the documents showed that in a one-year period, 1972 and 1973, Bush received credit for nine days of active National Guard service. The traditional term of service then and now for the National Guard is one weekend a month and two full weeks a year, meaning that Bush's nine-day stint qualifies him only for the National Guard's National Guard. That's the National Guard's National Guard, an Army of None.

  Jon Stewart

  Army, Weekend, Years

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• In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence when it’s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to those—such as the police, the military, or even the National Guard—who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population.

  Alan Keyes

  Military, Mean, People

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• I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.

  Ozzie Smith

  Mean, People, Break

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• The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war, but if Kerry tells them exotic tales of covert missions into Cambodia directed by Richard Nixon, they don't even bother to fact-check who was president in December 1968.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Media, President

  "Ballad Of The French Berets". www.anncoulter.com. August 18, 2004.

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• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  Dan Wheldon

  Jobs, Team, Class

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• I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context of these National Guard weekend warriors who wander into a world about which they know nothing and then wind up wreaking havoc on themselves.

  Keith Carradine

  War, Mean, Weekend

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Regulars are coming out!

  Paul Revere

  Arms, British

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• The argument that today's National Guardsmen, members of a select militia, would constitute the only persons entitled to keep and bear arms has no historical foundation.

  Joyce Lee Malcolm

  Historical, Bears, Foundation

  Joyce Lee Malcolm (1996). “To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right”, p.163, Harvard University Press

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• I'd like to get into the National Guard.

  Dan Quayle

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• The White House has finally found one guy that kinda remembers serving with President Bush in the National Guard. Now they just need to find someone who remembers Bush working on an economic plan. ... I think the White House spent more money looking for this guy than finding weapons of mass destruction.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, White

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• John Kerry said today he wants to debate President Bush once a month. Hey good luck, if Bush couldn't make it to the National Guard once a month, he's not going to show up for this.

  Jay Leno

  Good Luck, President, Hey

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• For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking.

  Mark Boal

  New York, Military, Dust

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• [James vowed again to] use the National Guard and state troopers to prevent the removal [of Judge Roy Moore's Commandments display].

  Fob James

  Judging, Scary, Use

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• In Louisiana, President Bush met with over 15,000 National Guard troops. Here's the weird part, nobody remembers seeing him there.

  Craig Kilborn

  President, Troops, Louisiana

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