Military Quotes

"To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized"

Peter DeFazio, Politician

"Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade"

Philip James Bailey, Poet

"To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country"

Ari Fleischer, Public Servant

"I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use"

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Politician

"The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission"

Mark Kirk, Politician

"When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated"

Kim Y. Sam

"We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment"

Earl Blumenauer, Politician

"If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years"

Kim Dae Jung, Leader

"There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support"

Jane Mayer, Journalist

"If you live in Israel and you see the way life is there and then you go abroad and see the way Israel is reported on, the way that Israel gets reported on night after night is simply pictures of bombings or military actions"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists"

Herbert Read, Poet

"I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border"

Harrison Salisbury, Journalist

"An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world"

Ellen Tauscher, Politician

"Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war"

Peter DeFazio, Politician

"The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution.""

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves"

David Vitter, Politician

"Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it"

Gary Sinise, Actor

"Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it"

Christopher Shays, Politician

"I suggested that we had experience in helping other countries build their military forces, and we would be willing and happy to do the same for Afghanistan, together with the United States"

Bulent Ecevit, Politician

"Getting our military back on stable footing won't happen overnight. We must start this process now, since future engagements are likely and allies are scarce"

Ellen Tauscher, Politician

"The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there"

Channing Tatum, Actor

"The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort"

Antoine Fuqua, Director

"I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice"

Alex Morrison, Soldier

"I have always had a particular antagonism for the military"

Donna Leon, Author

"All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that"

Alex Morrison, Soldier

"However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way"

Alex Morrison, Soldier

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