Peter DeFazio Quotes
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
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According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
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Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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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.
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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.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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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.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
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I have ever remarked, that when Fate has any great misfortune in store, it is always preceded by a brief period of calm and sunshine-as if to add bitterness of contrast to all other misery. It is for the happy to tremble-it is over their heads that the thunderbolt is about to burst.
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When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.
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Maryland is never going to be the low-cost place to live and work, and we shouldn't try to be because we have a lot of other stuff we bring to the table. And you get what you pay for.
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Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
