Quotes About Military

As an already high-demand, low-density military asset, we cannot afford to lose the JSTARS's BMC2/ISR unparalleled capability.

We cannot have a separate group of people that are military and a separate civilian society. Otherwise, it's dangerous to democracy.

The American voter knows that we cannot protect the seas and our interests overseas unless we have ships that can fight and deliver Marines and carrier-based fighter jets to the world's hot spots.

We cannot expect our men and women in uniform to be at their best if they are worried about their spouse and children back home.

As Russia, China, and Iran work overtime to destroy us, we cannot afford to have our military's best and brightest on the sidelines because their own Commander-in-Chief has waged war on their rights.

So, Israel, for all its glory, has failed as a social country because it has not built a strong society, but a very weak one. We succeeded militarily and financially, and we are the 'Start-Up Nation' - but when it comes to social issues, Israel has failed. It is very sad.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

As he assumes the awesome responsibilities of the presidency, Donald Trump has inherited a world on fire and a U.S. military weakened by years of senseless budget cuts. I am encouraged that he recognizes these problems and has pledged to rebuild the military.

What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

Our military sons and daughters that are placed in harm's way deserve the right equipment, the right training, and the right rules of engagement to win decisively on any field of battle.

Climate change is absolutely real and if you don't believe that you ought to believe every four-star general in our military is planning for it.

When you first get into television it is a big deal, then you realize you are no better than anyone else, we just have a platform to use, to help other people. I use that platform for the work I do in the military, the work I do with cancer because I was fortunate enough to get that platform.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

One thing I learned in the military is we fight for everybody's rights to say and do as they please, so everybody is free to make their choices.

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

Though there are plenty of reasons to critique U.S. foreign policy and the way in which the U.S. military enacts it, serving your country has long been a way for economically marginalized Americans to get an economic step up - and could be for trans people as well.

Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn't going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn't want to work on a farm. I knew I didn't want to do manual labor the rest of my life.

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.

One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make for a long time. But as you go through a campaign, there's lots of decision points you make, and you don't know whether those are gonna be the right decision points or not.