Ex Military Quotes

All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

The world is a safer and better place that the United States is the strongest military power on earth. The stronger you are, the less likelihood you'll ever have to use it.

This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.

Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.

[Barack] Obama has betrayed Israel, gutted the military, and apologized on ten world tours.

I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.

The EU is a community of values, not military buildups.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

When President Obama in 2011 used military power against the Qaddafi regime in Libya, he did not even notify Congress. A few in Congress mumbled, but did nothing.

We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military.

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.

There is nearly always uh, a process of wanting contingency plans made in the military.

he'd know that I think that . . . well, that bending an enemy's will through military force is the absolute last way a nation ought to go about solving their problems.

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the military conducted only a handful of drone missions.

The fact that our largest presence in the world is our massive military is going to dictate how we engage with the world.

After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

You can't just put the military in the streets of the United States rounding up illegal aliens. I think that would be a violation of federal law.

I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.

I'm blessed to be in a command position in a Navy this good

What do you do when you get out of the military, you stop serving? There are 26 presidents who served in the military. More than half of our presidents... that means that you stop being an American?

Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

General James Mattis is a storied and much-respected military leader.

[James Mattis] also has real passion for the care of the men and women in the U.S. military and their families. So, you know, I think he would be an outstanding candidate.

We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those numbers. And that's a good thing.

I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

There are many different ways that a military person's career can be translated.

It's been so important that the Chamber of Commerce, for example, has hosted hiring fairs that are specifically targeted to military communities.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

I'm not sure how paying for transgender surgery [in the military] makes our country safer.

The number one priority of President Trump is to rebuild our military, to restore the arsenal of democracy.

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.

We've got to strengthen our military long-term. We don't know what the world is going to throw at us down the road.

We should have communicated to Iran that we are prepared, that we are considering military options. They're not just on the table, they are in our hands.

Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish extraordinary purposes for our country without having to put our military forces into conflict.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

We have to stand for our principles, stand for our allies, stand for a strong military and stand for a stronger economy.

Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

Don't repeat the lies of the liars.