Duncan Hunter Quotes

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

Duncan Hunter

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• I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • See
  • Back
  • Step

• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Problem
  • Environment
  • Military

• You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Problem
  • Military
  • Dignity

• International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Control
  • Military
  • Police

• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • War
  • Free
  • Military

• It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Military
  • Democratic

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Love
  • America
  • Freedom

• We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Powerful
  • Military

• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • War
  • Career

• I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Music
  • Together
  • Help

• In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Attention
  • Taken
  • Care

• When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Work
  • American
  • Political

• I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Military
  • Number
  • Watched

• In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Military
  • Service
  • Security

• My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • College
  • Mom
  • Military

• People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.

  

  Austin Stowell
  • People
  • Country
  • Community

• But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • War
  • Action
  • Military

• I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It's about everything in moderation.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Moon
  • Blue

• Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Know
  • Human

• Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

  

  Duncan Hunter
  • Military