Officers Quotes - Page 6

• As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

  Asne Seierstad

  War, Glasses, Hands

  29 Copy quote

• I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

  Trent Lott

  Thinking, Fans, Enough

  'Hardball with Chris Matthews', www.nbcnews.com. December 17, 2004.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

  Andrea Jung

  Senior, Unique, Friendly

  9 Copy quote

• We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

  Robert Burton

  Years, Mayors, Scholar

  Robert Burton, William H. Gass (2001). “The Anatomy of Melancholy”, NYRB Classics

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

  John Buford

  Night, Men, June

  20 Copy quote

• Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

  Kristina McMorris

  Loss, Doors, Quiet

  Kristina Mcmorris (2013). “The Pieces We Keep”, p.131, Kensington Publishing Corp.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

  Method Man

  Kicks, Humans, Stills

  7 Copy quote

• It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed during the time they were working in common. Everything in the way of naval routine was sacrificed for the time to the objects of the cruise, and the appearance of the deck and bow of the Blake was often more that of a mud-scow than of a vessel in the service of the United States.

  Alexander Agassiz

  Ocean, Way, Mud

  Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

  Veerappa Moily

  Want, Ranking, Transport

  4 Copy quote

• Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.

  Colin Powell

  Senior, War, Government

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.149, Ballantine Books

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.

  Ezra Pound

  Hands, Law, America

  12 Copy quote

• MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Responsibility, Power

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

  Cassandra Clare

  Snakes, Police, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.930, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people running these banks. They're the chief officers, and they push the loans because they don't care if they go bad. For one thing, they may package these bad loans and sell them off to gullible institutional investors.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, People, Bankers

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Science, Sea, Goggles

  53 Copy quote

• The West has institutions that can punish the misconduct of individuals. What drove Rwanda and Africa into decline was the fact that certain people weren't held accountable. When we move to make corrupt mayors or officers answer to the courts, people always immediately say that we are repressive. But should we allow these people to continue to get away with it?

  Paul Kagame

  Moving, People, Answers

  "'We Are Far from Exhausting Our Potential'". Interview with Horand Knaup, www.spiegel.de. July 6, 2010.

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Due to a Supreme Court decision, if these violent offenders cannot be sent home, our law enforcement officers have to release them into your communities.

  Donald Trump

  Home, Law, Community

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And ICE and Border Patrol officers will be allowed to do their jobs the way their jobs are supposed to be done.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Ice, Borders

  "Mick Mulvaney talks 'redefining' the federal government". www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2017.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The problem I have these days is that women are often cast in a role - as a police officer, for example - and then are invariably perceived by the other characters as succeeding in a man's job, as if they're doing it in spite of being women.

  Kathy Bates

  Jobs, Character, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look at it from [Vladimir] Putin's perspective, right. He's a trained intelligence officer, worked for the KGB, very talented, manipulated people much smarter than Donald Trump. He played this perfectly, right. He saw that Donald Trump wanted to be complimented.

  Michael Morell

  Kgb, People, Perspective

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Police, Crime

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this to Congress and the American people about it day after day after day.

  Chris Christie

  Law, America, People

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of fallen police officer waiting for decades for justice for his murder? So let's ask the question. Hillary Clinton as a coddler of the brutal Castro brothers and betrayer of the family of fallen state trooper Werner Foerster and his family.

  Chris Christie

  Brother, Justice, Safety

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger officers began to read a lot of anthropology because they realized that the basic problem was that they were trying to fight a war in a culture they didn't understand. They might have read someone like Margaret Mead.

  George Packer

  War, Fighting, Games

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed.

  Jeff Sessions

  Mind, Important, Agents

  5 Copy quote