Military Bases Quotes

• 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

  Country, Military, Two

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• We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation of cheap labor and raw materials. We're on the scene to do that, and the military is there to see that it happens.

  Philip Berrigan

  Military, Raw Materials, World

  Source: law-journals-books.vlex.com

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• My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Dad, Military

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• We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military - we seek no military bases there. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and now Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Home, Men

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning to become global. Before that the United States had been mostly a regional power - Britain was the biggest global power. After the Second World War, national security is everywhere, because we basically owned the world, so our security is threatened everywhere. Not just on our borders, but everywhere - so you have to have a thousand military bases around the world for "defense."

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, War, Borders

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Russia has two bases outside of Russia. America has 178 military bases throughout the world. Who's the aggressor?

  Jesse Ventura

  Military, Russia, Two

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• We, the great American nation, decided that we've got 138 military bases around the world and we've now figured out that we can buy these drones from the Israelis, and we've decided that the way to proceed is to use this new technology to go and kill anybody that we don't like or who disagrees with us or who we might perceive as making an existential threat.

  Roger Waters

  Military, Technology, Drones

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Military, Giving, United States

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• When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my father being a veteran of World War II, not being able to use - having to sit behind Nazi on American military bases, I lost my fear of jails and death.

  Jesse Jackson

  Military, War, Father

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Military, Airports, Cities

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• At present, the United States, with over 700 foreign military bases, navies in every ocean, a programme to militarise space, and drone bases planned for all regions of the world, is increasingly perceived in relation to its hard power diplomacy, a threat to political independence and stability for many countries.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Military, Ocean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The world spends two trillion dollars a year on military, and of that two trillion the United States spends one trillion. We have a bigger military than the rest of the world put together. We have 150 foreign military bases.

  Bill Ayers

  Military, Years, Two

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• It was reported today that U.S. military bases will not show 'Brokeback Mountain.' However, during interrogations, U.S. troops will continue to show 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Military, Brokeback Mountain, Troops

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• The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Country, Military, Medicine

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• So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating war in Afghanistan and maintaining over 850 military bases around the world, the administration has run up the national debt that Smith decried. By shifting the tax burden off property and off rent-seeking monopolies - above all, off the financial sector - this policy has raised America's cost of living and doing business, thereby undercutting its competitive power and running up larger and larger foreign debt.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Military, War

  "Adam Smith Critiques the Deficit Reduction Commission". Personal website, michael-hudson.com. December 06, 2010.

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• We stand for the dismantling of foreign military bases. We stand for a reduction of armed forces and armaments in areas where military confrontation is especially dangerous, above all in central Europe.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Military, Europe, Armament

  "Voices of Tomorrow : The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union". Book by Jessica Smith, p. 30, 1971.

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• I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to put military bases on Mars, we'd be at Mars in two years. That would be quick. I don't want that to be the reason.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Military, War, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am aware of what you're talking about with FEMA camps. What is particularly disturbing about that is they are going to be on former military bases. A ton of people have expressed their concerns that what they're building are prison camps.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Military, Talking

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• The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

  Peter DeFazio

  Military, Iraq, Renounce

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• Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Kentucky, Numbers

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• The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.

  Evo Morales

  Military, Fighting, Drug

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• I really like visiting military bases.

  Stacy Keibler

  Military, Visiting, Bases

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• The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them.

  Jane D. Hull

  Country, Military, Needs

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