Quotes About Military

I have members of my family who are in the military. I have friends who are in the military. Classmates who served in the military.

As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.

Many of our forces collapsed when Daesh rolled into Iraq.

The first boots on the ground in Afghanistan were my colleagues.

I love Colombia's military. I love my country.

They send women into combat without being prepared for women in combat. The men resented them being there, and it was just very, very difficult for them, and they had to fight for the respect they were earning. And that's all they want is the respect.

When I first realized that I wanted to be a stand-up comedian was when I was in the service.

I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

I always said my favorite position was company commander in the Paratroop Brigade.

We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell was a successful compromise in 1993; and so that compromise should remain.

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.'

I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

I refused to adopt civilian way of life and slowly influenced my civilian surroundings to do things the military way. My civilian career as an entrepreneur and founder of a defense contracting company has been an extension of my military service.

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

Look, I went to war, and we knew by survey that when I went to war that we had a certain percentage in that carrier battle group, and when I was on the ground briefly in Afghanistan, that were gay. And now we come back to America and say they don't have equal rights. I've never understood it. This is something where we have to correct this.

I have done a lot greater things than 'Survivor.' Going through SEAL training was much harder than 'Survivor.'

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.

I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.