Quotes About Military

It is an honor of a lifetime to be appointed secretary of defense and to lead the greatest military in history.

When you cut a half-a-trillion dollars from the defense budget, it affects almost every area in the defense budget.

In terms of my military duties, I filed for a delay in my enlistment.

I am delighted to round off my military life safely, thanks to those who have taken good care of me like my family.

If the military is to show the capabilities that we demand and expect of it, then the defense budget has to continue to rise.

Americans don't want to see our military become Republican or Democrat. Americans appreciate that our military belongs to all of us.

Everybody in the military is a Democrat. They just don't know it.

I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.

We need to stop sending federal military equipment to local police departments.

If there's a country, and it's dangerous, and we deploy a U.S.military man or woman, if there's only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is 'boots on the ground.'

I got married in 2009, and my husband and I both immediately deployed to Afghanistan.

I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things.

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

When you're in the military, you get accustomed to sleep deprivation.

If your goal is to destroy ISIS, there needs to be a ground force. It could be American or foreign.

Anything I can do to help destroy ISIS, I will support that.

The goal is to deter war, and this can only be done with a strong, modern, and ready military that has overmatch in all domains.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

I suffered during the military intervention of May 27, 1960, and then again on March 12, 1971 and again on September 12, 1980, and I was targeted February 28, 1997. My respect for the military aside, I have always been against interventions.

ISIS targeting the U.S. military is like a sheep targeting a lion.

We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don't want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply.

Once you start bombing in Syria, when you start looking for targets, there will be a lot.

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.