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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Army
  • Soviet

• 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.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Business
  • Team
  • Trust

• The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Will
  • Islam

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• 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

• 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.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • Time
  • Action
  • Doubt

• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Never

• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Free
  • Army

• 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

• My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Important
  • Family
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • War
  • Christian
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• 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.

  

  Oliver North
  • Country
  • School
  • War

• Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • War
  • Understand

• Thank God for the hours of training, thank God that, for all its sometimes stupidity, the British army was the only army that trained its infantry with real ammunition.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • God
  • Real
  • Training

• The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strength

• One of the coolest things with the Internet is that it is used by the entire population - as part of education and just on a daily basis for communication. I think that has been one of the coolest technologies that has been developed.

  

  Anousheh Ansari
  • Internet
  • Developed
  • Technologies

• I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Moments
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Friends

• Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.

  

  Peter DeFazio
  • War
  • Military
  • Army