Quotes About Military

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.

Our political leaders, our top generals, our military brass, our national security apparatus are grossly incompetent or, worse, corrupt.

America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.

A businessman can be as military as any politician.

I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.

I grew up, initially, poor and then rich and then back to poor when I was in the military and college. And then eventually made some money playing poker.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

Members of the military appear to be on this President's mind only when they serve a purpose. In Trump's case, that's popularity by association.

The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.

The military is a discrete entity. Then they come back, and they're such a small percentage of the population, and they can't really - it's hard for them to talk to civilians.

There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

We have a great all-volunteer force, but the fact is that 0.5% of the U.S. population serves in the military, maybe another 3-5% knows someone who serves. Leaving 95% of Ameria with no real contact with the military.

I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

If I was a guy, based on how I performed in pilot training, I would have been able to have selected a fighter. I mean, I have always said unemotionally, if we want the best fighting force, why would we have 50 percent of our population not competing for these positions?

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

My military service has been attacked by people who have never picked up a rifle and manned a post.

When you tell a recruiter that you're almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn't go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.

It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.

When my contract with the military was done, then I started following MMA.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.