Ex Military Quotes

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

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In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast majority of Americans who are not participants.

... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

We do everything humanly possible, consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties, at all costs.

You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.

Do wars support the military-industrial complex and therefore support the people?

The military said we'll be able to confirm Saddam is dead with DNA testing. Apparently we have a sample of his DNA. So Monica Lewinsky is working for the CIA?

The White House has now released military documents that they say prove George Bush met his requirements for the National Guard. Big deal, we've got documents that prove Al Gore won the election.

The Canadian Prime Minister said Canada would lend the U.S. its full military support. You know what that means: Both tanks.

The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.

We need to embed our forces - our troops inside the Iraqi military. We need to arm directly the Kurds. And all of that has to be done in concert with the Arab nations.

We need to unleash the military in unison with our partners in Europe and the Middle East to be effective.

ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.

Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are unafraid of death and desire martyrdom.

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have.

We need military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism.

Russia has two bases outside of Russia. America has 178 military bases throughout the world. Who's the aggressor?

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

One thing I've discovered is that people in the military have a sense of purpose. They feel useful, and everything is laid out in front of them. What their job is, is very clear.

The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars.

Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.

Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire.

Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

If money or military might would change that part of the world... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough.

But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership.

Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.

Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.

I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government.

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians; you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians in addition to the attack on the military target.

Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.

The mere absence of war is not peace.

The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

Our military is overextended. Nine out of 10 active-duty Army divisions are either in Iraq, going to Iraq or have come back from Iraq. One way or the other, they're wrapped up in it.

Reduce US military presence in Iraq; and bring in neighbors.

Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world.

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war.