Ex Military Quotes

In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's a lot of justification for their view.

America has the strongest, best-trained, best-led military force in the world, and we have failed them. Our military today is struggling in virtually every category that measures preparedness.

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

After all this time and all this, quote, "experience," how is she [Hillary Clinton] not better at this [military]?

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology.

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.

The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

Declarations of war have never been a constitutional requirement for military action abroad.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.

Let someone else get killed!

Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?

I have the complete support of the military. I personally served in the navy.

Mitt Romney, both did better with the military than Donald [Trump].

United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office.

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.

...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.

A lot of the stars were actually in the military and they were really strong characters.

I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

There are plenty of people in the in the military and high ranking generals that do not feel that they have been optimized or listened to .

We have to be concerned that Russia is also increasing its military influence in Egypt, potentially in Libya, also in Afghanistan.

I don't think that we're necessarily going to see the U.S. and Russia becoming out and out military competitors against each other.

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.

I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of war as long as their threat to our nation without a trial.

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

We had to restructure our military and our politics and so on. We're a new democracy. We're a nascent democracy.

What's the point of having this superb military you're always talking about if we can't use it?