Military Quotes
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The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
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When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they have invariably used hydrogen peroxide-based bombs because acquiring military-grade explosives or dynamite is nearly impossible for would-be terrorists in Western countries.
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I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.
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I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
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They are not my forces, they are military forces that belong to the government.… I don't own them. I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.
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If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
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Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.
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I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
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When the situation is obscure, attack
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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If you liked El Salvador, you're going to love Colombia. It's the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington.
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The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.
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The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.
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In conflict zones in particular, we need personnel who wear the badge of the United States, are a part of our official military command, and are always held accountable for their actions.
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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
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The people who are in the military work very hard, often for not much money, to make their country better and to protect their country. And I have nothing but respect for that.
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In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.
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The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.
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Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.
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I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.
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What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.
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Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.
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In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than what's been done to North Korea is going to have to work; otherwise, a military strike is the only option.
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It will require a sustained military and financial commitment by the international community, working with the government of Afghanistan, to create the environment in which enduring democratic institutions can be established.
