As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they’re going there. – Howard Dean
I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border. – Harrison Salisbury
There’s an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that’s exciting. – Hari Kunzru
If public opinion still endorses military action that’s one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it’s not only impatience, but there are several other factors. – Hans Blix
We had the best-equipped and we have the best-trained military force on the face of the earth, right here in Oklahoma. – Harry M. Wyatt III
Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain. – Hideki Tojo
This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don’t like the bureaucracy. That’s because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in. – Grover Norquist
What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons. – Hans Blix
For years, even before 9/11, I’ve been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs – perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism. – Greg Bear
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could – with 100 per cent certainty – know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. – Hans Blix
Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone. – George William Norris
Since 1945, no one in the U.S. military has liked the end result of the military conflicts we’ve been in: Vietnam, Korea, certainly Iraq, and probably Afghanistan. But in a democracy, you salute. – John F. Kelly
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan. – Iqbal Quadir
I’m convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb – they diffused it. – Jay London
In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos – of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. – required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia. – Jeff Greenfield
There’s no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards. – James Mattis
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It’s called Four Blind Mice and it’s a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military. – James Patterson
I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases? – Jose Saramago
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. – Jared Diamond
Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland. – Jeremy Corbyn
I didn’t go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession. – Jim Lovell
Our military doesn’t defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations. – Jesse Ventura
The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes. – Jean-Marie Le Pen
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. – Joseph Heller
