Ex Military Quotes

When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!

You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

If we don't get the military right nothing else matters.

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

They were saying you would be a tremendous addition to the military, and we can get you into West Point with a full scholarship. And I simply said, I want to be a doctor. I really appreciate it.

Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error.

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

I think the reason why more rapists go into the military is the same reason why predators go into the Catholic Church. It's a place they know they can get away with it.

Once the war against Saddam begins, we expect every American to support our military, and if they can't do that, to shut up.

It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

Military families so much appreciate the love, support and prayers.

There isn't any air power in the world that can take care of the problem of sectarian divisions.

But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

Peace through strength works. We've got the greatest military in the world. I want them to dominate any potential conflict.

It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security.

Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background.

Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

It's unclear how air strikes on our part can succeed unless the Iraqi army is willing to fight, and that's uncertain given the fact that several Iraqi army divisions have melted away.

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned against us by the people we're trying to combat.

The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military.

Our military, police forces, fire fighters ... those are the real Hall of Famers.

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.

I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

There's always a balance, I think, any administration has to find in not just the military but in any agency of government.

I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the Senate, requires more than just a military dimension.

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

Gweneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her.

I have always held the view that decisive force should be used in addressing a military conflict. The reason is simple: Why wouldn't you, if you could?