Ex Military Quotes

The bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.

The US needs military/defense, economic, and social strategies. A medium-sized business, by contrast, is normally best off focusing its efforts on a single crucial objective.

I would say any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military.

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.

Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

Every time I tour military outlets, I dedicate the food, fitness and set-ups to their service, because it all came to me through the military.

Whenever I deal with children or the military, that becomes special to me.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?

There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.

I think that - that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on North Korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to South Korea, I think these are all good things to have done.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.

Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

I haven't talked to [Donald] Trump since he made his comments about [John] McCain being captured; now he doesn't respect military guys that get captured.

There hasn't been a military force like the United States of America in the history of the world.

[Donald] Trump is speaking in Philadelphia on military matters. He's doing quite well. I want to join a little bit of this in progress just to give you a flavor for how Trump is sounding.

[Donald] Trump's establishing his bona fides on military preparedness. No histrionics, just the facts.

I think Donald Trump is very alarmed and distressed over what Obama has done to the United States military and the perception of our standing and strength in the world.

I think anybody currently running for the presidency on the Republican side by default would be a huge improvement over Obama in every area, including foreign policy and the use of the military.

The reason Donald Trump has supporters... I can go through the list for you. The issues are border/immigration, jobs, military, "make America great again..."

A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt.

I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative. I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.

Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.

In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.

The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a part of.

As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.

I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that.

Spending time with the military certainly lends itself to some remarkable experiences, and I've been privileged to have had my share.

I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies.

I never imagined I'd be working with government, or military or politicians or big companies. None of this stuff I'm doing was on any business plan anywhere ever.

I really like visiting military bases.

I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.