Quotes About Military

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'

Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.

I can't avoid the interest in the fact that I'm an injured female soldier.

When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

I've never been a soldier. In Denmark, at 18, as a male, you go in a draw, and if they pick you, you go and serve for a year. I didn't.

We have a responsibility as ex-soldiers to realise we're no longer in the military. All this 'once a soldier, always a soldier', that's all well and good, but that attitude doesn't work in society.

If you ask a soldier what is the key to this confidence, they will likely answer their discipline and their training.

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.

I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.

If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

I'm pretty actively involved with the military because I think they're incredible human beings. If I can give back to them for what they're doing for us, it's a good thing. And I think to have happy soldiers, you need to feed them well.

I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they're out there fighting for other countries' rights to vote... Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.