Air Force Quotes - Page 3

• My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

  Eric Liu

  War, Air, Chinese

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• At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

  Sandy Adams

  School, Air, Age

  "House passes GOP version of Violence Against Women Act renewal" by Kate Bolduan, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2012.

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• The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.

  George H. W. Bush

  Humorous, Air, Missing

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• The children are designated as "Air Force aides of the Hitler youth" and wear military uniforms and become used to handling the anti-aircraft artillery flak guns. 15 and 16 year old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps the babies will be also employed. Total war!!

  Friedrich Kellner

  Baby, Children, Military

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• If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?

  Robert Kuttner

  Military, Air, Dollars

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.96, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

  Robert Stack

  Believe, Air, Wings

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• In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty can come at any time. You stand ready to put your lives on hold and answer that call, ... And you did so because you love your state and your country. America appreciates your courageous decision to serve. Together with your comrades in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Reserves, you are showing that patriotism is alive and well in Idaho and throughout the United States.

  George H. W. Bush

  Country, Courage, Determination

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• Offense is the essence of air power.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Military, Air, Essence

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• Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that seek to respect and protect the rights of all cadets -- not just those adhering to majority religious beliefs.

  Barry W. Lynn

  Religious, Powerful, Rights

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• War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  War, Air, Groups

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• I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

  RJ Mitte

  Military, Marine, Air

  "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter Jr.)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. March 2008.

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• I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Country, Brother, Father

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.

  Robert Crais

  Dog, Military, Air

  "Novelist loses a dog, finds a heroine in "Suspect". interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2013.

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• In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Thinking, Air, People

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• I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.

  Vanessa Lachey

  Military, Kids, Air

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.

  Alan Dershowitz

  War, Air, Israel

  "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways". Book by Alan Dershowitz, February 17, 2006.

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• While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.

  Gordon Cooper

  Lakes, Air, California

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• Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

  Mike Myers

  Mom, Dad, Army

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• Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.

  Steven Spielberg

  Military, War, Air

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• I'm still trying to decide. It's a really difficult one because I really enjoy my time in the Air Force. And I'd love to continue it. But the pressures of my other life are building. And fighting them off or balancing the two of them has proven quite difficult.

  Prince William

  Fighting, Air, Two

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• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  Felicia Day

  Dad, Military, Home

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2008.

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• I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

  Willie Nelson

  Thinking, Air, Needs

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• So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.

  George Carlin

  Golf, Air, People

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• Milestones you'd like to reach before retiring? Not really. Because when I began it was never to reach 100 games or reach 200 or to get high on the all-time list or whatever else. Those things are by-products. I want to win another championship, beginning with the conference championship. The thing that was disappointing to me last year was the fact that we did not win the conference championship. I felt like we just let that game (against Air Force in Las Vegas) get away from us.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Disappointment, Winning

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• I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The unknowns have varied over the decades from 22 percent in my own civilian files, 30 percent in the University of Colorda Condon Committee scientific studies, to at least 40 percent recently revised found in the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book military investigations. This is not acceptable, no matter who is doing the investigations.

  George Fawcett

  Military, Real, Book

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