Operations Quotes - Page 30

• All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.

  Renee Montagne

  Jobs, Special, Lines

  "Combat Jobs Are Open To Women But Filling Slots Will Take A While". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. January 6, 2016.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt because I understand the patterns of nineteenth-century jihad in West Africa that I was definitely going to be more advanced than they were in comprehending what the militant rallying cry was.

  Eliza Griswold

  Rallying Cry, Special, Patterns

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].

  Michael Hastings

  War, Team, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."

  Michael Hastings

  Stories, Information, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essentially say there is no difference between information operations, public affairs and psychological operations. It's all one and the same. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement.

  Michael Hastings

  Wall, Names, Differences

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really know who's running it - but this is all totally out in the open. It's this new program that will allow them to have like ten fake Twitter accounts and ten Facebook accounts so you can pretend.

  Michael Hastings

  Running, Communication, Fake

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know if most people have truly taken on board what this says about our place in the natural world. It doesn't mean that humans are dominating the Earth, ruling over all of nature. In fact, it is a reminder that we are only a tiny part of nature, at the mercy of a system whose operations predate us by billions of years, and will continue billions of years after we're gone.

  Annalee Newitz

  Taken, Mean, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.

  Sasa Stanisic

  War, Writing, Political

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate state. It doesn't really matter on the fundamental issues whether the President is Republican or Democratic.

  Chris Hedges

  Thinking, Issues, President

  10 Copy quote

• Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With these guys, we're not talking about the kind of common crimes that Nixon committed. I can't tell you whether they are technically breaking the law, but basically, the American government has been hijacked by neoconservatives. They are taking an awful lot of national security operations into the White House.

  Seymour Hersh

  Talking, Law, White

  Source: www.progressive.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Essentially Rumsfeld wins, Cheney wins, and the CIA and State Department lose. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have more centralized control over intelligence, analysis, and operations than ever before. And the way they interpret the law, if the President authorizes an intelligence mission to be run covertly by the Pentagon, they don't have to tell anybody, including Congress, about it because the President is the commander in chief.

  Seymour Hersh

  Running, Winning, Law

  Source: www.progressive.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have been a spokesperson for Operation Smile for twenty years helping children with facial deformities. I also have worked with a children's mission called Compassion International. Both are doing amazing work for the children of the world.

  Roma Downey

  Children, Compassion, Years

  "Actor Roma Downey: Being inspired by kindness and the centering ritual of tea". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most of her participation in the United Nations, which [??] history, as I say, I don't take too seriously, because I know how that UN operation works, and it is essentially a facade in which the work is done back in Washington and in the capitals involved, and the people up front are just going through the motions.

  William A. Rusher

  People, Done, Facade

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run through September of 2016. Half of the trillion dollars goes to defense spending and the Pentagon. The other half goes to domestic spending - everything from prisons to parks. So there's also about 74 billion in there that goes to the military operations that we have ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria.

  Susan Davis

  Running, Military, Iraq

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Government's running the student loan program; what in the world could be wrong with it? If the government's running it, if Obama's taken it over, and he's got a lot of compassion, a big heart, loves people, what could possibly be wrong with it? And then the subject of tuition came up, and how come tuition never gets cut? Why does tuition always go up? Guarantee, folks, when you subsidize something, if you run a university and the government's gonna subsidize parts of your operation, why in the world should you cut anything?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Taken, Heart

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I couldn't deal with anything. I wasn't enjoying what I was doing because of the situation. My Paiste rep, a symbol company, referred me to this doctor in LA. I went there and had a consultation done. So, he examined exactly what the problem was and I went for the operation and it was a success.

  Charlie Benante

  Doctors, Done, Problem

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Saudi Arabia has said that if the US-led coalition against Daesh is prepared to engage in ground operations, we will be prepared to participate with special forces. The Russians say their objective is to defeat Daesh, too. If the deployment of ground troops helps in the fight against Daesh, why is that World War III?

  Adel al-Jubeir

  War, Fighting, Deployment

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who were tragically killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation.

  Barack Obama

  Condolences, Italian, Grieving

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the issues with some of these lenders is going to be, where will their provider of credit be when there's a crisis? That's why some of these smarter services, to support their operations, are courting more permanent capital. They want a source of longer-term funding that can survive a crisis.

  Jamie Dimon

  Issues, Support, Credit

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My guess is the big Chinese banks will be in 100 countries by then. They will have very sophisticated operations, and they may very well have bought banks around the world in countries that allow it. I mean, I don't think the American government would allow them to buy JPMorgan. But they will be able to buy a sizable big bank in the U.S. at some point. Whether they do or not, or if it's allowed or not, I don't know.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you look at groups in the Palestine region, Hamas and the Palestine Islamic jihad, more often than not in their first operations they would accidentally blow themselves up on the way to the target or the bomb wouldn't go off.

  Michael Scheuer

  Islamic, Blow, Groups

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

  Michael Scheuer

  Israel, Politician, Reason

  Source: www.pbs.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to catch and so we’re going to be doing a complete review of FDA operations. At bare minimum, we should be able to count on our government keeping our kids safe when they eat peanut butter. That’s what Sasha eats for lunch. Probably three times a week...

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Lunch

  "Interview with President Barack Obama". "NBC Today Show" with Matt Lauer, archives.nbclearn.com. February 2, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are posed at all. It's just a news-gathering operation, and the fact that the news is being given by governments who are waging war doesn't seem to worry many journalists too much.

  Tariq Ali

  War, Government, Worry

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• What happens when you get hurt? Take that kid at Kentucky, Nerlens Noel, who could have turned pro after high school.Who knows what's going to happen? How the operation is going to go? The only thing I do know is that he would have been a top pick in the draft last year, and he'd have millions of dollars in the bank.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Hurt, Kids, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source