Our Troops Quotes - Page 6

• While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

  Raul Grijalva

  Mistake, Home, Iraq

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• I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

  Holly Johnson

  Thinking, Troops, Topics

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• I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

  Jessica Lynch

  Troops, Stories, Inspired

  Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007

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• There's a difference between loyal opposition that has a different view, and those who are advocating a defeatist approach that sends the wrong message to our troops and the enemy.

  Scott McClellan

  Views, Differences, Enemy

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• We've given Iraq six months and I don't think things are really working out, so we should probably bring our troops home.

  Thomas Friedman

  Home, Thinking, Iraq

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• The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe.

  Lawrence Korb

  Military, White, House

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• The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

  George W. Bush

  Army, Volunteer, Troops

  George W. Bush at the second Presidential Debate in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2004.

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• We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Country, War

  "Ivins: Stand up against the surge" by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. January 11, 2007.

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• There is no military solution to the war in Iraq. Our troops can help suppress the violence, but they cannot solve its root causes. And all the troops in the world won't be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down at a table, resolve their differences, and forge a lasting peace. In fact, adding more troops will only push this political settlement further and further into the future, as it tells the Iraqis that no matter how much of a mess they make, the American military will always be there to clean it up.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Roots

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• To overcome extremism, we must also be vigilant in upholding the values our troops defend – because there is no force in the world more powerful than the example of America. That is why I have ordered the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and will seek swift and certain justice for captured terrorists – because living our values doesn't make us weaker, it makes us safer and it makes us stronger.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, America, Justice

  First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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• Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'

  Eugene Jarecki

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.

  John Conyers

  Home, Iraq, Giving

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• We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Real, Government, Iraq

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• We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.

  Marek Belka

  Responsibility, Iraq, Troops

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• Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.

  Galeazzo Ciano

  War, Troops, World

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• I regret that the Army felt it was necessary to rescind their invitation to the National Day of Prayer Task Force to participate in the Pentagon's special prayer service. I want to express my strong support for the United States military and all our troops. I will continue to pray that God will give them guidance, wisdom and protection as they serve this great country.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Strong, Regret

  "Franklin Graham Regrets Army's Decision to Rescind Invite to Pentagon Prayer Service", www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2010.

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• To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.

  John Hewson

  War, Troops, Ships

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

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• We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.

  Adam Schiff

  Numbers, Troops, Engagement

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• We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military - we seek no military bases there. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and now Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Home, Men

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• Every Thanksgiving, Barack sits down to call some of our troops and thank them for their service. When he tells me about these conversations, it always reminds me of how blessed we are to live in a country where men and women will stand up to protect our freedoms and preserve our way of life. And whenever I've had the chance to meet with these heroes and their families, I've always walked away inspired by their courage and in awe of their strength.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Hero, Blessed

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• I've traveled with Jack Murtha to Iraq three times to learn more about the region, talk with our diplomats and military leaders, and meet with our troops. Those visits are the main reason that I opposed the War in Iraq since its inception.

  John B. Larson

  Military, War, Iraq

  "Why I Support Murtha for Majority Leader" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2006.

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• When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

  Jimmy Carter

  Change, War, President

  "Mr President for good" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.

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• It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Government, Iraq

  Hillary Clinton's speech in US Senate, June 21, 2006.

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• Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies of doom and quagmire. Then we looked up to see, on television, correspondents actually embedded with our troops, reporting quick advances, one- sided firefights, melting opposition and, finally, welcoming crowds.

  Dick Morris

  Morning, New York, Reading

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• I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they're well paid, well trained, well equipped.

  George W. Bush

  War, Fighting, Winning

  George W. Bush's Press Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 15, 2003.

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