Pentagon Quotes - Page 6

• Congress has really set this thing up in a way that they absolve themselves of blame, They have their scapegoats. They can blame the Pentagon. They can blame BRAC. It's hard for voters to say this is Ortiz's fault.

  Juan Carlos I of Spain

  Voters, Way, Faults

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• if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

  Rachel Maddow

  Government, Want, Immortality

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• Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.

  Marie Colvin

  Mother, Husband, Children

  "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.

  Gore Vidal

  Block, Men, Nbc News

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• Osama bin laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that's probably cost almost nothing.

  Richard Engel

  New York, Guy, United States

  "Richard 'War of Fear' Engel Tells Jay Leno: 'End the Global War on Terrorism'". www.newsbusters.org. June 23, 2011.

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• Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Cliffs, Fiscal Cliff

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• We would always be under The Pentagon's protective umbrella

  Omar Torrijos

  Umbrella, Protective

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• We never know when we too will be called into eternity. I doubt if even one of those people who got on those planes or walked into the World Trade Center or the Pentagon last Tuesday morning thought it would be the last day of their lives. They didn't - it didn't occur to them. And that's why each of us needs to face our own spiritual need and commit ourselves to God and his will now.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Morning, People

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

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• We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards. [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]

  Orrin Hatch

  Fear, September 11, World

  "Witnesses and leaders on terrorist attacks". www.cnn.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Pentagon records show that at least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. Army have deserted since the Iraq war began. Hey, at least somebody has an exit strategy.

  Tina Fey

  War, Army, Iraq

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• The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Country, Dollars, Disease

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• 9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack the United States not from the outside, but from the inside. It was a sign that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, could watch the cathedral of capitalism at the Trade Center and the heart of its defense at the Pentagon be struck internally, not really across borders, so that borders don't matter anymore.

  Benjamin Barber

  Country, Powerful, Heart

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.

  George Gilder

  Motivation, Community, Identity

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

  Hildegard Knef

  Fire, Actors, Revolution

  HILDEGARD KNEF (1971). “THE GIFT HORSE”

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• Saddam Hussein... I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you're going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Believe, Iraq, World

  "O'Reilly: "We Do Not Speculate Here". FAIR.org, June 10, 2005.

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• The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can't say, 'this is really important to this community, and it's really not vital to the national security, but we ought to do it anyway.' So, I think we have to have a discipline on this

  John Kasich

  Thinking, America, Discipline

  "John Kasich Tells TIME: The Republican Party Is My Vehicle, Not My Master". Interview with Zeke J Miller, time.com. June 18, 2015.

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• Here's the latest from the Pentagon -- the generals are worried that the White House is spreading itself thin by trying to fight a war on two fronts; Afghanistan and Fox News.

  Jay Leno

  War, Fighting, Two

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• Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power.

  Lewis Mumford

  Play, Long, People

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• Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Troops, Bombs, Movement

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5066, NYU Press

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• I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Airplane, Thinking, People

  "Tough questions teed up for Rice testimony" by Mimi Hall and Judy Keen, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 16, 2002.

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• The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large as the Pentagon's budget, dozens of fatted PACs, and the well-advertised support of the Christian deity.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Christian, Party, Support

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• Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.

  Jack Keane

  Military, Goal, Leader

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, America, Cynical

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

  Pat Tillman

  Exercise, Today, Truth Is

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• 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

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